Illegal but Common

ISBN-13: 9783639170412 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 92 str.

Muhammad Chozin

Opis

It is estimatedthat more than 53% of Indonesiascoral reefs have been threatened bydestructive fishing such as blast fishing. Blastfishing (dynamite fishing) is the practice ofusing explosives to catch the fish. This illegal practiceis extremely destructive to the surroundingecosystem, especially to coral reefs. This bookis an anthropological research on blastfishermen society in a small island within theSpermonde archipelago, Indonesia. It discovers thedaily life of fishermen who deal with illegal anddestructive fishing. The desire to achieveeconomic gain and modernizationovercame their desire for resource sustainability.Exposure to the nearby city of modern life inMakassar (the mainland) combined with a lack offormal education plunges them into a greedinesssituation in which they have only limitedalternatives available with which to participate inthe material consumption that surrounds them. Thehigh demand from global markets for fish attractsthem to use short-cuts in fishing.

O autorze

After completing his bachelor degree at Gadjah Mada University
in Indonesia, Chozin pursued master degree in the
interdisciplinary Southeast Asian Studies
Program at Ohio University, USA. To work on this research, he
spent a summer living with blast fishermen on an island in
Indonesia. He is now living in Indonesia works with environmental
issues.