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The Concept of Traditional Shrimp Farmer Empowerment 

Generally, empowerment is a striving to improve the energy, or strength from inside that

strengthened or supported by lasing elements from outside. Therefore, the conception oftraditional shrimp farmer empowerment intrinsically is a concept that growing and alsoimproving ability of traditional shrimp farmers in problem solving or developing their pre-eminent potencies, which pushed by environmental factor and elements from outside.

Traditional shrimp farmer empowerment can be viewed as a concept of communityeconomic development especially in the coastal area which embraces the social values.Traditional shrimp farmer empowerment very close with sustainable coastal areadevelopment because it contains efforts improvement of shrimp famer ability to developshrimp farming up at better which continually. Conducted improvement not even to peopleas individually, but extending into shrimp famer itself and their environment.

The concept of traditional shrimp farmer empowerment has broader meaning from simplyeffort accomplishment of basic need or reducing poorness. This concept touch the growthaspects, generalization and improvement of ability of traditional shrimp farmer at dimensionswhich supporting each other and it is not oppose to growth and generalization, howevermaking related/relevant at both of that.

Based on logical basic like above mentioned, the objectives of the concept of traditionalshrimp culture empowerment are:

1. Discharging traditional shrimp farmers (specially who weakest) from disadvantagedsituation either through economics and technology capability.

2. Strengthening position of traditional shrimp farmer especially who weak anddisadvantage in development mechanism and structure so it can strengthen"bargaining position" with stronger other sides, so that will grow relationship closelyand at next stage can growing equivalent partnership and profiting each other.

As above description, the concept of traditional shrimp farmer empowerment needed to seefrom three sides as follows:

1. Creating situation that conducive to expand potency of traditional shrimp farmer. Thesituation is very needed to build the energy of traditional shrimp farmer throughsupported motivation and awaken awareness of their owned potency.

2. Strengthen the potency or owned energy of traditional shrimp farmer. As effort tostrengthen the society potency, concerning ready various inputs, opening of theopportunities that make powered traditional shrimp farmer, and the important one isto educating traditional shrimp farmer to be more skillful in exploiting ready input ofthe opportunities.

3. Protecting the empowerment process so who weak are not increase to weakenbecause his disability on facing the other strength.

The process of traditional shrimp farmer empowerment will only grow at full speed if fulfilling

of it some prerequisites of claimed conditions for example:

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1. Existence of policy framework of settled and clear development to develop theconcept of traditional shrimp farmer empowerment. Without strong and clearexistence of wisdom, hence the process empowerment will not work better and thesociety feel to be played tricks on the process.

2. Existence of transparent mechanism within process of traditional shrimp farmerempowerment. The transparent mechanism will generate well-balanced and healthyemulation. The transparent mechanism will grow also well-balanced treatment to thestrengths and to the weak. Thereby, transparent mechanism have close relationshipwith growth of potencies or the real energy which owned by the society, it is not withan illusion which many supported by power and facility.

Based on above mentioned description, hence the effort of traditional shrimp farmerempowerment is having to directional clearly. Traditional shrimp farmer empowerment haveto be addressed directly to group of shrimp farmer who most least get the developmentbenefit.

Main approach of traditional shrimp farmer empowerment is the society becomedevelopment subject and not become object of development project. The participation ofsociety of traditional shrimp farmers need to organized, because organization is importantstrength resource. Approach of group looked into very effective in organizing variouspotency on society of traditional shrimp farmers. But that way, the participation and growingof society groups of traditional shrimp farmers is needed to support by assistance effort, tobe formed a directional effort and filling each other with other development efforts.

Traditional shrimp farmer’s empowerment as a basic strategy of development needs theappropriate bureaucracy. Structure and mechanism which supporting the empowermentneeded to develop, specially that placing the society of traditional shrimp farmers asprotagonist and subject of development and not predominated by just bureaucracy again.

The improvement of bureaucracy human resource is insufficient just to move change,therefore the system and bureaucracy rule even also needed to accommodate [so thatenabling the society personate the protagonist and subject of development. A centeredstructure upward requires pulling closer up especially to society so that clearly conventionalrole that is arranging life and society business activity. That way also the bureaucracymechanism that supporting the traditional shrimp farmers empowerment needed to growpassing the effort to start its process from desires of society, then formulated, processes anddeveloped furthermore become activities of development.

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