The establishment of a nickel mine has greatly affected the lives of the inhabitants of a formerly remote rural community in Indonesia. The article examines some of the health consequences of the project for the local people. In particular, it discusses problems of water and sanitation in the mining town, the nutritional consequences of changing social relations with capitalist development, and problems in the delivery of health care. The conflicts generated by these issues indicate some of the shortcomings of a national development strategy which relies heavily on private foreign investment.
Soroako, a village In Sulawesi, Indonesia has undergone dramatic changes in the last decade as a consequence of the establishment of a foreign-owned nickel mining and processing venture. This thesis focuses on the consequences of the new development, principally in regard to the 1,000 indigenous Soroakans whose former agricultural land is now the site for the mining town. It presents an analysis of developing capitalist relations of production in the mining town, investigating changes not only in the sphere of production manifested in daily life as new forms of work, but also in culture and ideology. New ideological forms have arisen in the context of the evolving class structure. The metaphor used in the title derives from the evaluation which the Soroakans make of the new order: they are the'stepchildren' of the progress occurring around them.
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