Author(s): Endang Sutrisno
Legal culture is an important component in the process of law enforcement. Legal norms are not in a vacuum but they are strongly influenced by the socio-economic environment. The substance and structure component to streamline the application of norms requires a positive and constructive legal culture. Law No. 7 of 2016 and Regulation of the Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries of the Republic of Indonesia Number 18/PERMEN-KP/2016 contains values of legal progress to provide protection and empowerment to small salt farmers and farmers of salt ponds. The poverty factor in developing countries as well as Indonesia is the cause of the birth of a negative and apathetic legal culture towards the understanding of the values of protection and empowerment which are the objectives of the legal norm. This condition, has hampered the formation of legal awareness and community legal compliance with the applicable law, it requires the participation of all elements to overcome these problems including public policies formulated by the government must be able to respond to the needs of the community, and carried out continuously as a process to build welfare.