Job preferences between fisheries and other sectors in coastal region of Pekalongan, Indonesia

Abstract

The study examined the job preferences of coastal communities between the fisheries sector, traditional textile industry (Batik printing) or other sectors in the Wonokerto-Pekalongan District, Indonesia. Data collected based on interviews with informants were analysed with Atlas Ti software to build triangulation from qualitative data. The results indicated that the coastal communities prefer to work in other sectors because it is more formal and stable compared to the fisheries sector.Keywords: Atlas Ti, Batik, Fisheries, Job selection, Pekalongan

Adaptive Capacity of Fishermen in Facing Tidal Floods with Vulnerability to Viability (V2V) Approach

“…There are also 16.9% of respondents who want to move. The results found in this study, unlike the research carried out on the beach of Pekalongan by Furoida et al (2022), show that the fishing community, due to the uncertainty of fish production catches, has to have other alternative jobs to build the economic resilience of households. This result also differs from the result obtained by McLeman & Hunter (2010) in West Africa, who found that people choose to migrate, resulting in long dry seasons (environmental hazards), to gain better economic resilience.…”