Dear Mr. Mayor... Can You Clean the Housing? A Citizen's Dependency on Local Government in Environmental Collective Action

Abstract

Abstract__This article explains inequality relationship between local government and society in Muaro Lasak in managing environmental problem which is indicated by society's tendency to hand over environmental affairs to local government. By involving society members, visitors, and apparatus from local government institutions in interview, the research finds that the inequality relationship due to the weakening of public values among the society members who are positioned as the development object, as well as experienced by local government as the initiator of the program. The upstream of the problem is the lack of knowledge on each side.