Maritime Culture Degradation: History, Identity, and Social Practice of Seafaring in Banten

Abstract

Colonialism has been a preliminary thesis that can be addressed in the Indonesian maritime culture degradation. In order to restore the maritime culture, the current representation of degradation in the community level needs to be considered. This paper provides the historical process of Banten maritime culture degradation and the existing condition of degradation itself in the context of sea social practice on sociological perspective.