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Brooke Nolan, mempresentasikan temuan penelitianya.
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Brooke Nolan, an UMM student from Australia who joined the Australian Consortium for In-Country Indonesian Studies (ACICIS), Wednesday (12/8) presented her 3rd study finding. Nolan was a student who joined ACICIS program at UMM for three periods.
Nolan’s finding was about the fishermen’s life in Sendang Biru, Malang regency, which was compared with a previous study in Papela, Rote Island, NTT. It seemed interesting to be studied by policy makers.
In her finding, Nolan considered that a very high level of poverty in Papela was inversely proportional to the quality of fishermen’s life in Sendang Biru. It was because of a good reason. "In Papela, there is no specific rule about charter pricing and the selling price of fish. It makes the brokers can arbitrarily set a price that ultimately detrimental to fishermen," she said in front of the lecturers and tutors of ACICIS FISIP UMM.
"That pattern makes fishermen have debts to the brokers." In contrast, the fishermen’s life in Sendang Biru, Nolan stated, had already quite advanced. The existence of cooperatives enabled the management and pricing can be controlled properly.
At Sendang Biru, Nolan said, the government intervention through cooperatives got supports from local communities. "They can cooperate with other elements, such as universities which are doing the mentoring," said Nolan.(trs/nas/t_ris)
