Dynamics of survival strategies for poor fishermen in Olimeyala Village, Biluhu District, Gorontalo Regency

Safwan Tahir Bano 1, *, Ansar Arifin 2, Munsi Lampe 2 and Mashadi 2

1 Doctoral Program in Anthropology, Graduate School of Hasanuddin University, Jl. Perintis Kemerdekaan Km 10. Tamalanrea Hasanuddin University, Makassar, South Sulawesi, 90245 Indonesia.
2 Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Hasanuddin University, Jl. Perintis Kemerdekaan Km 10. Tamalanrea Hasanuddin University, Makassar, South Sulawesi, 90245 Indonesia.
 
Research Article
International Journal of Science and Research Archive, 2022, 07(02), 600-606.
Article DOI: 10.30574/ijsra.2022.7.2.0345
Publication history: 
Received on 18 November 2022; revised on 29 December 2022; accepted on 31 December 2022
 
Abstract: 
Poor fishermen in an effort to maintain survival, generally carry out life strategies both individually, households, and in a wider circle. Not going to stand idly by in the face of their conditions of poverty, they can in certain ways use the potential they have to maintain their subsistence life through various means. The purpose of this study was to analyze the dynamics of the survival strategy of poor fishermen in Olimeyala Village, Biluhu District, Gorontalo Regency. The research method used is a qualitative approach with the type of research used descriptive-qualitative research. The design of this study is based on a paradigm that is depicted on the nature of the problem and the suitability of assumptions. The type of data collected is primary data sourced from respondents, namely fishing communities. The determination of respondents was carried out by random sampling techniques. The results of the study obtained: 1) The diversification of the business carried out is part of the strategy taken in order to continue his life and his family, with poor living conditions always doing various ways to carry out his life, both by diversifying his work and in other ways that he can do to maintain his survival. 2) The survival strategy carried out is to walk along the beach every morning picking up seaweed that is carried away by the waves and stranded on the seaside then controlling the seaweed he manages and continuing by tying seaweed ropes which also forms an aside job for him. 3) The fact on the ground that fisherman not only have he depended on his life from one source of work or from the main job but has done other work other than their main job, which is an effort taken to continue living with their family members.
 
Keywords: 
Poverty; Fishermen; Dynamics; Strategy; Gorontalo
 
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