Optimization Role of the Indonesian Navy in Economic Development Community of Coastal Areas in the West Lombok Through Islamic Perspective

Abstract

The Indonesian Navy maintains national defence and security, yet supports the coastal communities' economic development. The West Lombok Regency has potential resources to support national development in better management. The Navy economic empowerment role in the West Lombok Regency is urgently needed. This study analyzes the effect of an economic empowerment program of the Navy on the welfare of coastal communities and the impact on national defence and security in sharia perspectives. It also analyzes constraint and strategic issues related the Navy's role in developing the West Lombok Regency coastal communities welfare and composes institutional models and cooperation in supporting the government to promote the coastal communities economy, producing the Navy role optimization strategies in economic empowerment of the West Lombok Regency.  Quantitative and qualitative methods are used in this study, with analytical tools include the Result Impact Management System (RIMS), Descriptive Analysis, Tahwidi String Relationship, Strategic Assumption Surfacing and Testing (SAST), Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM), and Analytic Hierarchy Process Approach (AHP). Research respondents were 150 families who were beneficiaries of CCDP-IFAD in five villages in West Lombok.  The results indicate that the Navy's role in economic empowerment in the West Lombok Regency is not optimal yet. In sharia perspective, welfare affects national defence and security. To overcome this problem needs to be prepared the structured and applicable programs with field assistance. Based on the institutional model, the most desirable change issue is the establishment of real policies and legal frameworks to boost cooperation between institutions/stakeholders in empowering the coastal community and clearly institutional sharing of authority

Keywords: Economic Empowerment, Development, Coastal Community, Sharia, National Security and Resilience.

DOI: 10.7176/EJBM/12-26-05

Publication date:September 30^th 2020