Poor Fishermen Community as Social Laboratory; Constructing Change from Resignation to Awareness

Main Authors: Harifuddin Halim, Rasyidah Zainuddin
Format: Proceeding
Terbitan: , 2016
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Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/241567
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  • The poverty in the fisher community viewed clearly in lower education level, lower of social participation, the quality of home dwelling is under standard, lower income, etc. Many research found the poverty is in two aspect, they called structural poverty and cultural poverty. Structurally, the poverty regarded to the less of access by the fishermen to public sphere, political sphere, and broader social-economic sphere. Culturally, the fisher have less rational instrumental ethical work, non-oriented long term, tend to fatalist, resigned and deterministic. In the university, the social-culture of fisher community is knowledge space and social laboratory for developing the community change. The fisher community has its social-culture system evolutionary, meanwhile the university has its scientific basic progressively, constructively, futuristically as well as oriented to human wellbeing. University is always identically to knowledge and science that involving rational instrumental and rational of value. Meanwhile, in the fisher community both rational occur unbalancing. This condition bring the fisher to poverty. In that context, university has its legal in science and knowledge with collaborating to fisher community in life changing to prosperity life by constructed their human awareness.