Urban Small-Scale Fishing Community within the Vortex of Social Exclusion (Case of Urban Fishing Community in Makassar City, Indonesia)

The Urban small-scale fishing community is very problematic and complex. Poverty and social exclusion are state and process that awfully have being side by side in their daylife. This study aims to analyse the process of exclusion of the samll scale fishing commuity in urban areas. To achieve the objective, this study applied qualitative method in the process of gathering, explaining and analyzing the data. This study found that essesisally urban fishing community experienced exclusion structurally and culturally as a fundamental mechanism of exclusion in various dimensions. Starting from economic exclusion was constitutively mechanism of limitations and shortcomings in fishing production and distribution activities. Class exploitation through the patron-client relationships that benefit local financiers made it worse the economic exclusion and harm the fishing community. Meanwhile in urban structure, the fishing community was trapped in polarization and segregation in poor and slum areas. The urban structure more disfavored small-scale fishing community through reclamation and other urban coastal developments that threatens and afflicts the fishing community to lose their livelihoods. Simply this study concluded that small-scale fsihing community was within a mltidiemsionally socio-spatial mechanism of exclusion