This paper aims to examine the conflicts that occur between communities around the mine and mining companies. Mining is one sector that often reaps protests that lead to conflicts from communities other than plantations and forestry. Conflicts that occur in the same form tend to be resolved through the same method. Conflicts that occur repeatedly indicate there is no conflict resolution for the substantial problem that was become the conflict trigger. Conflict resolution efforts are often not directly related to the impacts that caused by the company’s extraction activities. this shows the tendency that emerged that the conflict was then maintained as a strategy to obtain profits from the company’s existence.
This paper aims to examine development as part of decentralization agenda, which challenges with environmental issues. Decentralization seeks to improve society as a top priority and at the same time, it tends to produce a degraded environment as a negative impact of exploration of natural resources to pursue community improvement. The rise of environmental problems that arise at this time demands attention from the public and the government, but as long local governments still prioritize economic interests, the implementation of decentralization will always be in a dilemma of environmental conditions. This paper employs qualitative research with cases study in two areas, namely Maros and Pangkajene Regencies in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
This study aims to analyse the environmental aspect related to the mining activities by a cement corporation. Mining process as part of development process based on the anthropocentric perspectives on the environmental position to human is seen as a rational activity to fill human needs. However, in the same time, it produces some damage to the environmental aspect where people around the process affected. The environmental problems need to be considered due to its position and effect before Men as the ecocentric view it. In this controversial Debate, CSR presence as the willingness to solve the debate while providing some benefit for the people around the mining activities. However, at the end, the CSR seems only present as the partial problem solving that actually not yet solve the fundamental problem of the mining process into the environmental aspect.
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