Government Policy for Coastal Communities
As many as 12,510 villages or 15.32 percent of the total 81,616 villages in Indonesia are located in coastal areas. About 90 percent of the coastal villages rely on fish resources as the main livelihood of the population
Siwi Nugraheni
As an archipelagic country, 62 percent of Indonesia's territory consists of sea. With a coastline of 99,083 kilometers, Indonesia is the country with the second longest coastline in the world after Canada. Unfortunately, the great potential of the marine sector has not been reflected in the lives of fishermen in coastal villages and Indonesia's macroeconomic indicators.
Fishermen are one of the low-income community groups in Indonesia. Data issued in 2021 show that out of 10.86 million poor people in Indonesia, around 1.3 million (12.5 percent) live in coastal areas. If seen from the aspect of extreme poverty, namely the inability of the people to meet the most basic necessities of life, the extreme poverty rate in coastal areas is 4.19 percent. This is higher than the national extreme poverty rate of 4 percent.