Abstract. Seaweed farming is widely considered to be a profitable source of income and lucrative livelihood for coastal communities in Indonesia. This paper aims to analyze the income of seaweed farming households in the village of Lemo, Poleang Tenggara sub district, Bombana district, SE Sulawesi, Indonesia. This paper also assess perception of farmers and their participation in diversified livelihoods. A formal household survey was conducted using a structured questionnaire covering the patterns of income from seaweed farming, fishing, and other occupations of 64 selected respondents. Results show that all respondents engaged in a combination of seaweed farming and fishing and non-fisheries activities. However, seaweed farming has the highest contribution to household income of all activities. In addition, themajority of seaweed farmer households in Lemo village have incomes below the National Poverty Line due to the low quality of human resources; lack of qualified farming technology, especially qualified seedlings plus lack of access to marketing networks, information and communication. Therefore, some recommendations for improving the seaweed farming methods need to be implemented.
Seaweed farming is an important livelihood in coastal areas in Indonesia. This activity is the only cash source for farmer’s daily needs. Nevertheless, they still suffer due to their lifestyle such as debt trap. This study aimed to describe the debt trap in seaweed farmers living in Bungin Permai village, Tinanggea district, South Konawe, SE Sulawesi, Indonesia. This study was done using a survey method. Structured questionnaire and in-depth interviews were done with a series of livelihood household surveys for randomly selected 98 respondents working as seaweed farmers. From this study, it was found that debt is their lifestyle. It was caused by their simple lifestyle. They always consider that the high fisheries resources from farming and fishing activities can maintain their daily life. Their expenditures are more than they can afford, especially on non-food and social expenditures (extravagant lifestyle). In addition, they mostly do not prefer to save their money in bank. Therefore, the only way to meet their daily needs is by borrowing from their middlemen.
Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan dan menganalisis pengetahuan orang Bajo tentang pamali di bidang ekologi laut, dan bentuk pergeseran pengetahuan masyarakat Bajo di bidang ekologi kelautan. Teori yang digunakan untuk membaca data mengacu pada Geertz, C, (1973) yang berpikir tentang sudut pandang asli. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah metode deskriptif kualitatif. Teknik pengumpulan data menggunakan observasi, wawancara dan studi dokumen. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa pengetahuan orang Bajo tentang pamali di bidang ekologi kelautan di wilayah Tiworo, ada 21 jenis pamali yang menjadi pandangan masyarakat Bajo dalam berinteraksi dengan lingkungan laut. Sementara bentuk pergeseran pengetahuan orang Bajo tentang pamali disebabkan oleh beberapa faktor yaitu: faktor agama, faktor struktur dan agen, faktor diskriminasi orang-orang seperti, kebijakan pemerintah.Kata kunci: Pengetahuan Pamali, orang Bajo, ekologi kelautan
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