Natural resources from the sea and the preservation of the maritime environment are the most important parts of developing a blue economy. Indonesia is a maritime country with an area of 6,400,000 km² of water. The sea is a source of Indonesia’s assets, with fisheries sector revenues comprising around US$ 27 billion of the total GDP, supporting 7 million jobs, and providing 50% of domestic animal protein needs. The increasing demand for natural resources, including energy from the ocean, can provide new possibilities and challenges for creating sustainable marine ecosystems, and conserving marine natural resources. Indonesia needs to reform the management of the blue economy to increase investment contributions, in order to improve the governance of existing fisheries and marine ecosystems, including mangrove forests and coral reefs. We examine data on natural resources from the ocean and assets of the blue economy to determine a conceptual framework for accounting for the value of natural resource assets; this can be used to provide stakeholders with complete information about the potential of the blue economy, thereby strengthening the need for and protecting valuable natural resources for future generations.

The Fishery Cooperative is one of the economic entities engaged in fisheries. Although the concept of a blue economy emerged in 2014, there is no research linking fishery cooperatives with the blue economy. Therefore, this scoping review aims to identify evidence of the contribution of fishery cooperatives to a sustainable blue economy, especially from a business perspective. This scoping review uses all articles in the SCOPUS database. The scoping review shows that the fishery cooperative supports a sustainable blue economy. It can increase economic growth by increasing fishermen’s harvest, improving fisheries and non-fisheries sectors, and developing a sustainable environment and economy.

Research on women in a coastal area tends to focus only on their roles as processors and vendors of fishery products. However, their contribution to the family economy is rarely overlooked. This descriptive study is an initial examination of the fisherwoman’s role on household income in Sawohan Village, East Java, Indonesia. The village, which is famous for the fishery products it turns out, is classified as a poor village because the local income is far below the East Java average minimum wage. The purpose of this study is twofold: first, to empower fisherwomen to improve the economy of the family; second, to analyze the factors that influence fisherwomen’s intentions to become entrepreneurs as a second income for the household. Entrepreneurship Capacity Building (ECB) methods using a participatory approach were performed to involve fisherwomen in identifying problems, the causal factors of the issues, handling strategies, and developing models for managing the village’s problems based on science and technology. A quantitative method, using an in-depth interview based on a questionnaire, was used to determine the factors that influence fisherwomen to become entrepreneurs. Multiple linear regression shows that fisherwomen are significantly affected to become entrepreneurs by self-motivation to earn profits (FP_PRFT), hobbies/pleasure (FP_HOBY), and government policy (FL_GOVT). The linear relation between those factors and entrepreneurship intention concludes that fisherwomen voluntarily wish to contribute to household income. The sustainability of this program must be done by providing entrepreneurship assistance and providing knowledge about product marketing.

The Impact of Assets Revaluation on Banking Capital Adequacy Ratio