Economic Development as Community Resilience Enhancement in Minapolis Coastal Settlement

Indonesia as the largest archipelagic country in the world has its development focus on coastal areas through various program such as Minapolitan (fishtown). One of the Minapolitan area in East Java laid in Brondong regency with its reputation for the export-quality fish and its local people who mostly work as fishermen. The main and current activities in the minapolis settlement, the settlement that support minapolitan program, is community empowerment through fishing and fishery processing. For the last few years there is a decline in the amount of fishery production and an increase processing costs due to global climate change and the unsustainable exploitation behaviour in fishing and daily living in the settlements in Brondong. This phenomenon affects the stability and resiliency of the people especially who live in Brondong coastal settlements. This article aims to explain argumentations of a minapolitan economic development as a community resilient enhancement in Brondong coastal settlements in facing the climate change challenges and the impacts of such unsustainable exploitation. The findings of this assessment shows that the main factors affected the economic resilience in Brondong coastal settlements are the availability of social community and formal economic institution, institution capacity, the availability of fishery production centre, and social capacity. These factors then should be concerned and developed in the holistic coastal settlements concepts. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd.