Global Journal of Human Social Science, E: Economics, Volume 22 Issue 3

Volume XXII Issue III Version I 54 ( ) Global Journal of Human Social Science - Year 2022 © 2022 Global Journals E Economic Empowerment Model of Coastal Communities Pigure 1: Vicious Circle of Poverty a) Poverty of Fishermen Communities When clearly considered, in fact there are many factors that cause poverty of fishermen communities, in addition to internal factors there are also exist an external factors. According Kusnadi (2003), factors causing the poverty of fishermen divide in two groups: internal poverty and external poverty. Meanwhile, Kusnadi (2003) also explained that internal poverty of fishermen include: (1) the limitations of human resource quality of fishermen; (2) the limited capacity of venture capital and fishing technology; (3) working relationships in fishing organizations that are often less profitable for workers; (4) difficulty in diversifying fishing business (5) high dependence on occupation go to sea; and (6) lifestyles that are considered wasteful, less oriented to the future. b) Economic empowerment of Coastal communities on poverty alleviation To reduce poverty in Indonesia, it is important to know what factors affect the high low level of poverty so that in the future can be formulated an effective public policy to reduce poverty level. In addition, the existence of strategy and alternative policies that take side to the poor become an absolute necessity to overcome poverty. In addition strategies and alternative policies to overcome the poverty of rural people including coastal communities can be done by providing broad opportunities for people to obtain education services and adequate health services. It also need to strengthen the executive and legislative commitments to improve governmental order and encourages regional development agendas prioritizing poverty eradication as main priority. Pro-poor policies and programs need to be focused on the real economy sector and should adopt the paradigm that stands for the poor. V. R esearch M ethodology To obtain accurate data, this study uses a qualitative method with a phenomenological approach. The phenomenological approach is a qualitative research tradition rooted in philosophy and psychology and focuses on the experience of human life (sociology). An important point that becomes the strength of the study of phenomenology is that the experiences hidden in the philosophical and psychological aspects of individuals will be revealed clearly. This agrees with Rukin, 2019 that critically phenomenology can be interpreted broadly as a philosophical movement that generally gives an implicit emancipatory influence to social research methods. Denzin, et. al., 2009 explained that the research strategy is only a tool, while the responsibility of the researcher is to understand the various models available and the desired goals in this study. The resource persons/ informants were selected using a purposive method. According to Rukin, 2021 purposive is a technique for determining informants not based on regions or strata, but based on considerations that focus on certain goals in this study. Thus, it can be interpreted that this purposive method, the selected informants are considered to understand the research to be carried out. Meanwhile, to get accurate results, in-depth interviews with knowledgeable people who understand about the Market imperfections, Economic backwardness Low capital Low investment Low productivity Low saving Low income