Abstract
Poverty is a multidimensional problem that the approach to eradicate poverty must also be multidimensional. The study aims to formulate a model of poverty alleviation in coastal fishing in the North Coast of East Java. Grounded research approach used to determine the causes, impacts and implications of poverty fishermen. The results showed that the main cause of poverty that occurred in the three districts in East Java's north coast is different from one another. In Gresik district, the major cause of poverty is law enforcements that do not support fishermen and overfishing. While Lamongan more due to low fish prices and capital problems. While in Tuban fishermen due to limited infrastructure and lazy and extravagant lifestyle of the fishermen. These differences lead to different coping strategies so that later can form a concept model of poverty alleviation North Coast fishermen in East Java.
Highlights
East Java Province is one of the provinces in Indonesia which have coastal areas
Approaches used to use a participatory approach, so this action research study using the method of Participatory Action Research (PAR)
Indonesia known as a maritime country, because based on the 1957 declaration Djoeanda sea area that reached 5.8 million square kilometers is 75 percent of the total land area of Indonesia
Summary
East Java Province is one of the provinces in Indonesia which have coastal areas. The region has 229 islands with a length of 2.833,85 km coastline. Along the northern coastal region of East Java, there is a potential natural resources that have not managed optimally. The other hand there is the activity of natural resource use that have a tendency to be exploitative and sectoral. As the largest province in Java, East Java Province has a relatively high economic activity so as to provide a real impact in improving economic growth, including the increasing level of welfare. The economic growth that occurred was not evenly felt by people in the northern coastal region. One indicator is still the presence of slums in some parts of coastal areas that reflect the persistence of pockets of poverty
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