WORKING RELATIONS BETWEEN COLLECTOR TRADERS AND FISHERMEN GROUPS IN BULUKUMBA REGENCY

Abstract

Until the fisheries field is the Bulukumba nation's ancestral root, the habits of the people of the Bulukumba Regency about local culture are still retained. A written contract did not govern the working relationship between hunting fishers and Ponggawa in the Bira coastal region. This situation produced the superiority of Sawi in the economic system by Ponggawa, including the arrangement of the sharing of production and wages. This study aims to decide the working relationship between Ponggawa and the fishers/Sawi in their work as fishermen and the factors influencing fishers' household welfare. This study was performed in Bira, his seat in South Sulawesi's Bulukumba Regency. The informants in this sample are fishermen who are part of the Bira party of fishermen, merchants, collectors, and many officials of the Bira administration. The approach used in this analysis is qualitative-descriptive, which relies on the consistent declarations of the informants. Literature analysis, evaluation or evaluation, and in-depth interviews are among the data collection methods selected. Domain analysis, taxonomic analysis, compositional analysis, and cultural themes analysis are the data processing methods used in this study. The findings revealed that: 1) the working partnership between fishers and collectors is seen from the perspective of continuity that is considered to run well; 2) the interest and protection aspects of the partner are considered to run well; and 3) aspects of the long-term partnerships that fishers and collectors create are often marked by reciprocal respect for each other and by shared respect for each other.