Abstract:
Indonesia is a vast country with various culture, including rivers and people. One of the cultures is a floating market with its life aspects. This study aims to explore the values of citizenship that underlie the struggle of women to become traders in the floating market to survive until now. The data of the citizenship perspective were collected through in-depth interviews. The results show that the struggle of women to become traders in floating markets to survive until now in order to maintain their lives and to be able to improve the welfare of family life lasts until now by securing and practicing the values citizenship based of rights and obligations. The implication for citizenship education is to make the citizenship values of floating market traders women as models and sources of development of values and character of citizenship based on the local wisdom in schools and class
