Research Article
Analysis of Economic Empowerment of Coastal Communities Towards Prosperous Communities
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.8-12-2018.2283971, author={Ratna Ekasari and Donny Arif and Wulan Purnamasari and Nikma Yucha}, title={Analysis of Economic Empowerment of Coastal Communities Towards Prosperous Communities}, proceedings={Proceedings of 1st Workshop on Environmental Science, Society, and Technology, WESTECH 2018, December 8th, 2018, Medan, Indonesia}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={WESTECH}, year={2019}, month={6}, keywords={economic empowerment community welfare}, doi={10.4108/eai.8-12-2018.2283971} }- Ratna Ekasari
Donny Arif
Wulan Purnamasari
Nikma Yucha
Year: 2019
Analysis of Economic Empowerment of Coastal Communities Towards Prosperous Communities
WESTECH
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.8-12-2018.2283971
Abstract
The coastal and coastal areas of East Java have quite diverse natural resource potential, including the possibility of capture fisheries, aquaculture, processing industries fish, agriculture, plantation, farm, and tour beach. Behind all the potential possessed by the coastal and coastal areas of East Java, has a fundamental problem, namely the welfare of the community.
This study aims to analyze the economic empowerment of coastal communities and analyze the welfare of coastal communities. This research was conducted using a qualitative research perspective with a case study method. This method is used because it examines a case or a particular phenomenon that exists in the community that is done in depth to study the background, circumstances, and interactions that occur.
The results of the study showed that to improve long-term welfare, the village community itself had to move and supported by the role of the government, village officials or related parties, it was very necessary to provide understanding, counseling and training and assistance in empowering villagers, by utilizing the existing potential to improve the village economy which has an impact on improving the welfare of the villagers.