The Effect of Social Capital Assets to the Success of Fisherman’s Household Moving Out of Poverty

Abstract

Fisherman’s household has the important role to the utilization of marine resources, but most of them are in poverty condition. Fisherman’s household are still the dominant household of poor people in coastal areas, especially in developing countries. This research has conducted to analyze the effect of variables of Social Capital Assets to the successful household of fishermen moving out of poverty. This research was conducted by using a combination of quantitative and qualitative approach. The Survey was conducted in ten coastal villages on the Bengkalis island of Riau Province, Indonesia, by in depth interviewing life story 126 samples of fisherman’s households that are still poor and 65 samples of fisherman’s households that moving out of poverty. The result of this research states that variable of social capital asset that influence to the success of fisherman’s household moving out of poverty are: Amount of social relation; Performance of fisherman’s household in fisherman group; Liveliness fisherman’s households in the fisherman group; Performance in patron and client system with fish dealer; Performance in patron and client system with other commodities dealer and performance relation in social group. Thus the success of fisherman’s households moving out of poverty is determined more by the management of social capital assets. The findings of this research in addition for contributing to the concept of community empowerment, especially on fisherman’s household.