Positive deviance of Tanjung Puting National Park manager: case of Teluk Pulai Village

Abstract

Conflict in the national park can be resolved through the positive deviance of national park manager as shown by case of conflict between the Community of Teluk Pulai Village with the Tanjung Puting National Park (TNTP) and the decreased conflict intensity due to policy implementation of village exclusion from the TNTP areas. The objective is to obtain the facts behind the village exclusion processes.The research is using a qualitative approach with a case study strategy and game theory as a quantitative approach. Data collection is conducted through field observation and non-structural in-depth interviews with the informants which are determined through purposive, snowball, and judgmental methods. The literature review is conducted on the applicable regulations and related research. Data analysis conducted through critical discourse analysis compared to the research problem criterion, there are access, conflict, and positive deviance.The result shows facts lying the conflict situation between the Teluk Pulai Village and the TNTP, also the village exclusion from the TNTP areas in which influenced by the role of TNTP’s manager by using the discourse in which deviant positively. Using the discourse, the TNTP’s manager is utilizing the political process of Spatial Planning of Central Kalimantan Province, up to the issuance of Kepmenhut 529/2012. The discourse is deviant since the general practice of national park’s manager are asserting the paradigm of conservation development pointing out the aspects of protection/preservation and conservation. It is called as positive since it is successfully eliminating the conflict between Teluk Pulai Village and TNTP.