Empowerment of Coastal Communities in Improving Welfare

Abstract

The habits of the people of Bone Regency regarding local culture are still preserved now; the fishery sector is the traditional livelihood of the Bone people, so they follow their daily habits both in social relations and in trade. As is known, the job of fishing in the sea is a place of life for fishers to finance their household needs. Coastal community groups need business capital so that in pursuing work as fishermen, the existence of these limitations is used by large traders or called Ponggawa. The method used in this study is qualitative-descriptive, focusing on informants' statements that have quality—the method used in the analysis of the para fishers’ group in Bajoe, Bone Regency. The life of the mustard (labor fisherman) depends on work which makes his position vulnerable and delusional to the treatment of Ponggawa. The work agreement perspective has not been used too much to see and respond to the symptoms of mustard and Ponggawa. Therefore, the writing in this study is here to provide a clear description of the problems presented. Specifically, this study will unravel the inequality of economic structure, social vulnerability, and the future of mustard greens/fishers in the coastal area of Bajoe, Bone Regency.