IDENTIFIKASI KESEJAHTERAAN MELALUI PENDEKATAN PEMBERDAYAAN MASYARAKAT PESISIR DI KABUPATEN KEPULAUAN MERANTI

The potential extent of the waters in Indonesia does not guarantee the welfare of the community. Precisely for people living in coastal areas, accessibility to the utilization of coastal resources is still low due to high poverty rates, lack of education, and a culture of market access that focuses on household management. Related to that, this article was written with the aim of identifying the level of welfare and empowerment of coastal communities in Meranti Islands Regency. Based on literature studies, the characteristics of coastal communities are unique but unproductive, resulting in marginalization and low economic levels of coastal communities. The results of this article show that coastal communities need systematic efforts to urge dimensional change through empowerment as an approach to achieve the goals of development of prosperous, fair and prosperous communities as well as strategies that can be used in empowerment. Coastal community empowerment is carried out by paying attention to indicators of coastal community welfare and factors of needs, income, challenges and potential resources (SW0T Analysis) owned by coastal communities in Meranti Islands Regency. Through the results of this literature, information will be obtained on characteristics, identification of welfare levels and strategies of coastal community empowerment approaches. The sources of information in this article are collected from various reference sources such as journals, books with related studies, websites such as Google search, google scholar and scimago as well as some articles derived from other desktop research. Then the secondary data is analyzed systematically review and identified by analyzing SWOT descriptively from references related to the study that the authors found.