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Partisipasi Dalam Konflik:
Perusahaan-perusahaan
pertambangan Australia di Indonesia
Participating in Conflict:
Australian mining companies in Indonesia
PSKP UGM, Yogyakarta November 23, 2017 Lian Sinclair [email protected]
PhD Candidate Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University
Abstract
Despite two decades of reform in governance of environmental and social impacts of mining, mining developments remain plagued by conflict. Corporations and states employ multiple strategies to resolve, depoliticise, and hide conflict. Foremost are participatory versions of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), community development programs, consultation, compensation, and environmental management that attempt to include people affected by mining within corporate processes of management. Here I am concerned with the question: why, how and under what conditions do corporations implement participatory mechanisms? I use social conflict theory to centre social and political contestation over resources and analyse how groups of people form alliances to organise in their own interests. A politics of scale is also important as these conflicts take place not only at local levels but across multiple scales where different constellations of opportunities are available. This presentation presents preliminary results from my PhD fieldwork in three case studies: Sand iron mining in Kulon Progo, the now closed Kelian Gold mine in Kutai Barat a d Newcrest’s gold i e Gosowo g i Hal ahera Utara. Together these three cases show that participatory mechanisms are enacted primarily in response to conflict, as an attempt to contain or depoliticise it and to create social relationships favourable to extractive capitalist development.
