The Potential for Creative Socio-Cultural Energy of Coastal Communities in the Maluku Islands

The coastal areas of the Maluku Islands are the most prominent poverty-polarizing areas, bothphysically and socially with relatively isolated geographical positions. The social energy of creativeculture has the potential to become a social resilience scheme in realizing welfare based oncommon interests. This qualitative study was conducted in Buru Island, Maluku Islands and aims toexplain the potential of socio-cultural energy as a scheme of community social resilience in survivalon the coast of Buru Island, Maluku Islands. The results of this study show that there is a potentialfor energy creative social culture that serves as a community social resilience scheme, wherethrough this potential although in limited circumstances and conditions, the community seems to beable to find a way out of a variety of problems, including the poverty problems they faced to stayalive. Meanwhile, on the potential of social energy, This then becomes a force and even a guidelinefor the community independently through creative and constructive efforts turned out to be able toempower themselves and its community to get out of trouble Including the problem of poverty,which is now a major problem for people living on the coast of Buru Island.