Network of Interest in Fisheries Development in Border Areas

Abstract

This article aims to describe the network of actors' interests in implementing a fisheries policy in border areas. The huge fishery potential at the Indonesian border has made domestic and foreign actors take advantage of it. The study method is qualitative using a case study approach and is explained descriptively. In each explanation of fisheries policy at the boundaries of the network of actors will be based on a critique of the existing approach and emphasize that the relationship between these actors will legalize various ways that hinder a policy. It will be clear that the actor's dilectic in policy implementation has three interactive or dialectical relationships involved: the network structure and the agents operating within it; the network and the context in which it operates; and network and policy outcomes. In this case, namely the implementation of the Integrated Marine and Fisheries Center policy in Natuna, the Indonesian Border, there are several weaknesses in the policy outcomes resulting from the dialectic of the network. Among them; weak political power of local government, lack of coordination and collaboration, strong private patron client and foreign actors and furthermore limited regional authority which is limited by the regulation itself.