Empowering Small Businesses of Pearl Farming

The production and export growth of seawater pearls from West Papua each year is quite large, even including the top five in the area that produces sea pearls from Indonesia. However, the growth of production and export is not accompanied by an increase in the welfare of the people or fishermen who cultivate the pearl of seawater. This research would like to see how fishermen cultivated sea water pearls who are seen as micro business owners, live their business life where when we look at their business, they should be able to live well and run their business well. The results show that the empowerment efforts of both local government and private involvement have not been well targeted and the absorption of knowledge of micro, small and medium enterprises owners in the Raja Ampat area is still weak so that the purpose of empowering micro, small and medium enterprises is difficult to achieve. The pattern of empowerment and time of program implementation is one of the obstacles of the implementers of the empowerment.