Community Preparedness on Transboundary Oil Spill Governance in Bintan Island

Abstract

The waters of the Kepulauan Riau have a strategic position, the entry and exit point of the Malacca Strait and connecting Middle Eastern which known as oil producer countries regions and East Asian Industrial countries. The main role to guard the environment and implement the government policies is the local community in the border area. This study applied quantitative method to investigate public perceptions towards oil waste-related issues by identifying knowledge, attitude, perception about impact and future condition foreseeing, attribution of responsibility, political perception, and political attitudes. KMO Measure of Sampling value is greater than. 5 (KMO = .672) and indicates the research instrument was meritorious and statistically significant (<.001). In term of political perception and attitude, we found a high positive correlation (Pearson’s R=.700, p=<.001) between the two variables. High score in attribution of responsibility to TNI indicates a potential further analysis on behalf of securitization theory from Copenhagen School of International Security and International Relations. Respondents tend to believe and demand that security sector must take a major role within the issues since a normal political process was perceived to be not quite enough to overcome the problems. It means that securitization will be perceived to succeed in the bilateral or trilateral framework instead of multilateral one.