The Small-Scale Tuna Fisheries at Yaholu Village, Central Maluku Regency, Indonesia

Strategic Customary Village Leadership in the Context of Marine Conservation and Development in Southeast Maluku, Indonesia

This article critically examines engagements of village leaders in an NGO-facilitated participatory conservation program in eastern Indonesia. It explores how the program's implementation strengthened leadership legitimacy of a dominant customary social group. Customary leaders ensured distribution according to particular norms, and in organizing village governance upheld specific interests and...

Multilateral Governance of Fisheries: Management and Cooperation in the Western and Central Pacific Tuna Fisheries Short title: Multilateral Governance of Fisheries: The case of WCP tuna

The tuna resources of the Western and Central Pacific are the world's largest and most valuable fisheries of their type and are of significant economic importance to the Pacific island countries through whose waters they migrate. Two major concerns exist with the current governance of the fishery. First, Pacific island countries are receiving only a small share of the resource rents from the tu...

Barriers to utilization of postnatal care at village level in Klaten district, central Java Province, Indonesia

BACKGROUND Maternal health remains a persisting public health challenge in Indonesia. Postnatal complications, in particular, are considered as maternal health problems priority that should be addressed. Conducting adequate care for postnatal complications will improve the quality of life of mothers and babies. With the universal health coverage implementation, the Indonesian government provide...

Driving small-scale fisheries in developing countries

Small-scale fisheries (SSFs) engage the vast majority of the world’s fishers but are struggling to keep pace with coastal populations, and stocks are declining to levels that threaten reproductive capacity. The provision of food and livelihoods to low-income fishers into the future will be unlikely without radical changes to fisheries policy. We draw on repeating analogies of driving a car to i...

Economic profit and optimal effort in the Western and Central Pacific tuna fisheries