Community Participation of Fishermen in Following Family Planning Program: A Case Study of Gender Relations in Village of KB Dusun Bagan Percut Sei Tuan

This study aims to determine the participation of fishermen in participating family planning
programs in Percut sei Tuan and to know the gender relations built in fishing communities. The type of research
used is descriptive qualitative with ethnography approach. The research technique is done by in-depth interview
and participant observation. The results of this study indicate that the low participation of men in participating
in family planning program, this is due to the strong construction of cultural values adopted by the fishermen
community such as "many children a lot of sustenance", the child acts as a labor that helps the family, the child is
a medium for improving the fate of the family, and bringing honor to the family. Gender relationship built in the
fishing community in KB is still low because the KB is considered the domain of women, the low knowledge of
women about family planning programs that cause women to be very vulnerable to receive the impact of the use
of contraception, the condition where women can not make their own decisions if you want to participate in
family planning program so have to ask the husband's permission.