Abstract

Community in Kerta Buana village developed by Indonesia government in 1980 through transmigration program were farmers. Meanwhile, farmland which received of transmigrant that time was 1¾ hectare (ha); one hectare of the land is for tidally irrigated rice, and ¾ hectare of the land is for dryland crop. Biside that, each transmigrant also received ¼ hectare land for home garden. Through the land which was given by government to transmigrants, before 2000, Kerta Buana village could be created as centre of paddys for Tenggarong Seberang subdistrict result of some paddyfield which made of transmigrants. However, effect of coal mining expantion and change of mining method from underground pit mining to open pit mining, center of paddys term move slowly become center of mine holes, it consequence so many mine holes are open because they are not reclaimed. Social formation of the community also changes from agriculture activity whose ever to dominate activity there to activity is whole depent coal mining activity dynamic in Kerta Buana village and its surrounding. This paper tries to explain social formation dynamic happening there as the attendance of mining business who sponsored by government through some permits given to many companies which able to change transmigration area with agriculture activity becoming coal mining area with varians of economic activities together.

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