Aliansi Selamatkan Slamet is exciting because it has achieved active involvement of different elements through its respective perspectives to jointly reject the construction of PLTPB. Using a theoretical framework of movement strategy, it examines how Aliansi Selamatkan Slamet determined the choice of targets, framing, time and relationships in the resistance movement. The results indicate that socio-political conditions, relations between organizations and organizational cultures have an influence on the movement's strategies and discourses.
A wave of rejection in the form of environmental justice movements in Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Australia was a reaction to the effects. The avalanche flooded the river around the slopes of Mount Slamet and disrupted the activities of the surrounding community. In response to this problem, various elements of the community who were members of the Aliansi Selamatkan Slamet (Save Slamet Alliance) carried out several resistance strategies to reject PLTPB Baturraden.
Based on the aforementioned argument, this article attempted to fill the gaps in the literature through an analysis based on the efforts of Aliansi Selamatkan Slamet to reject PLTPB Baturraden. In contrast, this article investigated how the choice of the most effective strategy was made based on the driving conditions. Therefore, this paper specifically examined how strategies and discourse are chosen based on the key elements of the Selamatkan Slamet Alliance movement.
The strategies of an environmental resistance movement depend on the history of the conflict and the demands of the movement. From the results of the field research in the case of the Selamatkan Slamet Alliance movement against PLTPB Baturraden, primary data analysis was conducted by documenting the in-depth interviews in the transcripts based on the established theoretical framework. To facilitate the flexibility of the movement, divisions of work among the members of the Selamatkan Slamet Alliance were formed based on regional and functional coverage led by a coordinator.
The Selamatkan Slamet Alliance, in the context of social movements, is a collective effort of community and marginalized groups excluded from development policies that eliminate their empowerment at the grassroots level (Bebbington 2008). The alliance was also opposed to the development of PLTPB Baturraden as an implication of national and global political economic conditions, and this notion is discussed in the next section. Key elements in movement strategy, such as movement requirements, arenas, and tactics, are influenced by movement assessment of opportunities and perceptions of opportunities (Meyer and Staggenborg 2012).
This decision was also made due to the movement's difficulty in accessing public information related to PLTPB Baturraden (Interview with Panji Mulkillah, November 1, 2018). The second consideration was related to the internal conditions of the movement, including the internal culture of the movement, the decision-making system, the resources available to the movement, and the organizational structure of Aliansi Selamatkan Slamet. For example, the incorporation of several NGOs focusing on environmental issues also influenced the ecological analysis of the alliance.
Aliansi Selamatkan Slamet took into account the large number of members in the alliance when determining the demonstration method.
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For example, they did not include an explanation of the area covered by the redshift land use area. The Selamatkan Slamet Alliance also highlighted the lack of involvement of local communities in project planning. Thus, the alliance sought to create a critical awareness among the wider community of the importance of participation in policy formulation.
Aliansi Selamatkan Slamet was then of the opinion that the absence of AMDAL had seriously affected the social sustainability of the local communities' ecology. In UKL-UPL, PT SAE was not required to obtain approval from the surrounding community for the construction of the PLTPB. As many as 45 local and national organizations issued joint statements to condemn the repressive actions of the police and the reconnaissance of PLTPB Baturraden on 15 December 2017.
In this case, recognition within Aliansi Selamatkan Slamet takes the form of collective identities, such as the language and culture of the inhabitants of Banyumas, and community myths related to the relationship between Mount Slamet and the surrounding environment that played a role in the movement. Likewise, the collective identity of the residents of the slopes of Mount Slamet played an important role in mobilizing local communities. This insight led Aliansi Selamatkan Slamet to assert that the future parties that would be harmed by the construction of the PLTPB were the people, flora, fauna and environment of the slopes of Mount Slamet.
Using the discourse of participation and recognition alongside the discourse of distribution helped the alliance to understand the social, cultural and institutional conditions underlying the environmental distribution of the PLTPB project (Schlosberg 2012). The three elements were influenced by the interaction of the movements in the surrounding cultural and political environment, between the communities or organizations in the alliance, and the internal organization of the alliance movement. The movement pointed out that the PLTPB development plan was not participatory and should have included socialization and dissemination of information to the surrounding communities.
The repressive attitude of the authorities in the response to the demonstration was also highlighted by the movement, with the intention of gaining greater support. Aliansi Selamatkan Slamet also noted several illegalities in the installation of PLTPB Baturraden in the red shifting land zone. Social Movement Participation and the 'Timing' of Engagement: The Case of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Movement." in Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change Volume 27, edited by Patrick G.
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