Title : Pemberdayaan Tujuh (Saptagon/Heptagon) Akses Rumah Tangga Miskin, Penguatan Ekonomi Rumah Tangga untuk Penanggulangan Kemiskinan Dan Kesejahteraan
Author : Sahri Muhammad, Irfan Islamy, Eko Ganis Suharsono
Publisher : Universitas Brawijaya Press
Edition : I, March 2014
Thickness : 296 pages
ISBN : 978-602-203-509-1
Poverty is a classic case that easily found in Indonesia. Inequality socio-economic conditions that are too far between the rich and the poor is easily seen in this country. Coastal communities is one of the poorest communities in Indonesia. Conditions acquired assets and fishermen access plays an important role in improving the welfare of society. This book presents the pentagon and heptagon concept of fishermen access in domestic life and its association with government policy, the business scope of community empowerment.
Pentagon assets consisted of five variables, namely human assets, financial assets, social assets, assets of natural resources and physical assets (page 3). While institutional heptagon poor access consists of: access to education and training / information, natural resources (fish), social, financial, facility / infrastructure / technology, market and budgeting policy / program development by the government, particularly on the development of employment including the Alternative Livelihood (AMP) (page 5).
Fishing families generally have lower education so training is necessary for them to inform them about their field of work. Fishermen are also limited in terms of capital. Mostly they are capitalized by the merchant. This merchant capital supported by the agent and the agent received capital support from the factory. In fact, the price of the game is very detrimental to fish by traders fisherman. Later, it will be necessary to repair a strong institutional fishing economy.
Fishermen also need social interaction and institutional support. Religious social capital inherent in coastal communities should be the foundation reinforcement of the fishing effort. Therefore, the role of religious leaders is very important in this term. While in terms of natural resources, the fishermen had to face circumstances that their fish decreased from time to time. The reason is partly due to the excessive amount of fishing gear and environmentally unfriendly, limited fishing gear technology, as well as limited fishing skills. On the other hand, about the physical or infrastructure, coastal communities need improved roads access and transportation to support the activities of buying and selling their fish.
Discussion on poverty reduction of the fishing community formulated interestingly in this book. The author gives the idea of such masterful formulations concept of empowerment to overcome poverty. Broadly speaking, improvement of the welfare of the poor, namely: the empowerment of natural resources in a sustainable manner, strengthening the accessibility of the physical infrastructure and environment-friendly technologies, strengthening human resource accessibility of households to education and vocational training, strengthening institutional accessibility of local financial capital, strengthening accessibility of fish marketing, strengthening institutional accessibility of social capital and local infrastructure, and lastly, the strengthening of political and budgetary policy accessibility of community development.
The discussion comes with detailed information covering the general condition of assets and access to fishing communities, the problems of fishing, fish resources management policy, household characteristics and fishing development index, institutional capital Coastal Community Financial Institutions (LKMP), marketing of the fish, and political development policy access. Through this book, readers will not only be able to get a comprehensive understanding of the life of fishing communities and their struggle against poverty, but the reader can also take the spirit to improve the welfare of the poor, especially the fishermen welfare in the future (ajemi).
Judul Buku : Pemberdayaan Tujuh (Saptagon/Heptagon) Akses Rumah Tangga Miskin, Penguatan Ekonomi Rumah Tangga untuk Penanggulangan Kemiskinan Dan Kesejahteraan
Penulis : Sahri Muhammad, Irfan Islamy, Eko Ganis Suharsono
Penerbit : Universitas Brawijaya Press
Cetakan : I, Maret 2014
Tebal : 296 halaman
ISBN : 978-602-203-509-1
Kemiskinan adalah hal klasik yang mudah dijumpai di Indonesia. Ketimpangan kondisi sosial ekonomi yang terlalu jauh antara si kaya dan miskin mudah dilihat di negara ini. Factor pelapisan masyarakat inilah yang disebut-sebut sebagai penyebab dari kemiskinan yang terjadi. Pemerintah sebagai pembawa amanah konstitusi negara yang bertugas mengentaskan kemiskinan pun telah melakukan sejumlah upaya walaupun hasilnya terlihat belum maksimal.
Bahasan tentang penanggulangan kemiskinan diracik menarik dalam buku ini. Penulisnya piawai memberikan ide berupa formulasi konsep pemberdayaan heptagon untuk menanggulangi kemiskinan di kalangan masyarakat pesisir sebagai salah satu komunitas paling miskin di Indonesia. Mereka menjabarkan tentang heptagon atau tujuh variable-variabel yang harus diperhatikan dalam pengentasan kemiskinan dan perbaikan kesejahteraan masyarakat miskin yaitu: pemberdayaan sumber daya alam secara berkelanjutan, penguatan aksesibilitas sarana prasarana fisik dan teknologi ramah lingkungan, penguatan aksesibilitas sumber daya manusia rumah tangga terhadap pendidikan dan latihan vokasi, penguatan aksesibilitas kelembagaan modal financial secara local, penguatan aksesibilitas pemasaran ikan, penguatan aksesibilitas kelembagaan modal social dan prasarana local, dan terakhir, penguatan aksesibilitas politik dan kebijakan penganggaran pembangunan masyarakat.
Konsep heptagon tersebut dilengkapi dengan bahasan terperinci meliputi kondisi umum asset dan akses masyarakat nelayan, problematika penangkapan ikan, kebijakan pengelolaan sumber daya ikan, karakteristik rumah tangga dan indeks pembangunan nelayan, kelembagaan permodalan Lembaga Keuangan Masyarakat Pantai (LKMP), pemasaran ikan hasil tangkapan, dan akses politik kebijakan pembangunan. Lewat buku ini, pembaca tidak hanya bisa mendapatkan pemahaman yang komprehensif tentang kehidupan masyarakat nelayan beserta pergulatannya melawan kemiskinan, tetapi pembaca juga dapat mengambil semangat pembaruan untuk perbaikan kesejahteraan masyarakat miskin khususnya nelaya di masa depan.
