THE ROLE OF FISHER'S WIFE TO SECURE THE HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY IN MORODEMAK FISHING COMMUNITY - CENTRAL JAVA PROVINCE, INDONESIA: BREAKING THROUGH THE FRONTIER

Morodemak is one of fishing landing place in North coast of Central Java province.  It lies about 60 km to the East of Semarang municipality (the capital city of Central Java). The fishing community are inhabited along the river of Morodemak.  Fishers in Morodemak are considered as the small-scale with conventional pattern to operate their business.  In majority they go for fishing for one day trip with the targeted fishing ground in the Java sea. It is often fishers went home with small in catch due to the existence of climate change. Thereafter, indeed need a help from wife to maintain the household's economy at least for survival purpose. From Javanese philosophy wife has an obligation on three roles: kasur (bed), Sumur (cleaning), and dapur (cooking). But under the global change such as climate change, the three conventional roles of wife is not sufficient, rather than stipulate beyond those roles to secure the household's economy. This study aims to explore what are the breaking through the frontier of wife's role in order to secure the household's economy under the existence of climate change. Mixed method was applied to analyse the data. About 98 wives had been interviewed in this study. The results indicated that wife is playing a significant role in fishing community to manage their family, particularly under the shocked situation such as climate change.