Local Economic Development of Coastal Community through Minapolitan Policy in Gresik Regency, Indonesia

This research investigates the implementation of Minapolitan Policy in Gresik Regency, East Java Province, Indonesia in developing local economic of coastal community. The roles of Gresik governments is analyzed within the context of decentralizations. The descriptive qualitative method is applied in order to capture detail facts, then it is described analytically. The data are collected by observation, in-depth interview, documentary and bibliography technique. There are three results of this paper. Firstly, the Gresik Regency has identified the potential commodities to be developed into minapolitan scheme in which concentrating more on cultivated fishery sectors and diversivication of processed fishery commodities. Secondly, the government optimizing its roles within the decentralisation schemes of empowering the fish-farmers and community in order to promote the marine resource production and local economic development. Lastly, The Gresik government is still dealing with the persistent problems such as (human resources, land convertion, infrastructures) than could only be solved collaborativery with many actors.