PASANG SURUT EKONOMI NELAYAN DI KECAMATAN BRONDONG KABUPATEN LAMONGAN TAHUN 1987-1998

Abstract

Brondong District, Lamongan Regency, is one area that is rich in marine potential and can be a source of welfare for the surrounding community. However, in the economic sector in Brondong District in 1987-1998, precisely during the New Order era in Indonesia, it experienced ups and downs, which was influenced by the monetary crisis that hit Indonesia. This study analyzes the economic ups and downs of fishermen in Brondong District, Lamongan Regency. Thus, the purpose of this research is to see how the changes in the fishermen's economy before the reform period in 1998. The research method applied in this research is the historical research method. Which consists of four stages, namely: heuristics, criticism, interpretation, and historiography. There are also those in this research is to do a search with primary and secondary sources. The primary sources in this study used archived documents from the Lamongan Regency Statistics Agency and the Lamongan District Fisheries Service. The secondary sources use previous research sources in the form of articles, books, thesis, etc. Meanwhile, the interview was conducted with the fishing community in the Brondong area and the head of the Fishermen Association. The results of this study are the ups and downs of the fishermen's economy in 1987-1998 in Brondong District which were influenced by the internal factors of fishermen such as the availability of natural and operational resources, as well as external factors from the social conflict between TPI and the economic crisis.

Keywords: Brondong District, Fishermen, Ups and Downs of the Economy