Abstract

Fishermen are one of the communities who cling their life on fishing. Currently there are many poor fishermen in Indonesia. One of the causes of their poverty is a lack of access to information and education for the fishermen. Thereby, this study was focused on describing to what extent does the fishermen opinion regarding their access to public information? The purpose of this study is to analyze the fishermen opinion on public information access. In collecting the data, fishermen from Karawang regency were selected as the population and the location sampling at the district level was conducted by simple random sampling. Then, a proportional sampling were conducted to select the respondents in each district. Furthermore, the overall sample size is determined based on the Tarro Yamane formula. The results of the study show that the respondent access to public information was depended on interpersonal media.The respondents had a positive opinion towards the access to public information in sense of confidence indicators, assessment indicators, and the indicators of behavioral tendencies.

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