The Welfare-Based Development in the Context of Maritime Culture: Encounters with anthropological perspective

Abstract

The context of geographical diversity in Indonesia essentially influences development approaches both at national and local levels. The development of social welfare cannot be implemented solely by utilizing quantitative and statistical parameters, but it has to be executed seriously by observing qualitative parameters, i.e. socio-cultural dimensions of indigenous people. Mapping of socio-cultural context in the archipelago communities is necessary to be conducted as a strategic way to construct maritime-based perspective and development paradigm. This article attempts to describe analytically socio-cultural context of archipelago communities in Maluku with their own dynamics as an endeavor to strengthening the significance of anthropological-based development perspective and paradigm reconstructed by the provincial/local government and stakeholders in Maluku.