Peran KUD Mina dalam Pembangunan Masyarakat Pesisir (Kasus di KUD Mina Fajar Sidik di Blanakan, Kabupaten Subang, Provinsi Jawa Barat)

Abstract

A cooperative is business voluntary owned and controlled by its member patrons, and operated for them on a non profit. Its mean that cooperative is an economic system with social content. So, cooperative suits coastal communities, especially for fishermen that majority of them living in under poverty line. KUD Mina Fajar Sidik is one of the fisheries cooperative in Indonesia get award as independent cooperative. The objectives of the study are: (1) to identify the performance of fisheries cooperative KUD Mina Fajar Sidik, (2) to identify the KUD Mina Fajar Sidik role in coastal communities, (3) to identify the internal and external factors which influence the performance of fISheries cooperative KUD Mina Fajar Sidik. The research shows that: (1) The performance of fisheries cooperative KUO Mina Fajar Sidik is very good, because apply the cooperative principles, (2) KUD Mina Fajar Sidik takes important role in coastal communities on economic and social sectors, (3) The main internal factors which influence the performance of fisheries cooperative KUD Mina Fajar Sidik are applied the cooperative principles (as strength) and human resources of their member poorly (as weakness). Another hand, the main external factors are the govemment concem to cooperative is very good (as opportunity) and unpredictable climate and over fIShing (as threat)