Deforestation as Violence Toward the Environment and Wider Community of Papua 2015-2019
Abstract
The existence of forests is a natural resource potential that benefits the country's
foreign exchange and has various functions that have a positive impact in
overcoming the backwardness experienced by the people of Papua. Economic and
infrastructure development are the cause of the large potential loss of biodiversity
wealth for the implementation of government policies and community needs.
Deforestation as an effort to overcome these problems. This forest change is
dominated by national forces that ignore human security, this has a major impact
on environmental damage and surrounding communities that depend on forests.
Through this theory, the author observes how deforestation by the government
unintended disturbs human security and triggers various forms of violence by
using the concept of the six distinctions of violence by Johan Galtung. Thus, the
wealth of natural resources does not make the community more prosperous, but
instead makes the community more miserable due to the conflicts and problems
that arise in the area. Although deforestation that occurs in Papua will provide
high economic benefits and ease of mobilization, deprivation due to deforestation
will have a bigger impact to environmental and social than positive impacts that
only benefit the stakeholders.
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