Abstract
A region’s development planning should be carried out by referring to the strategic issues faced by the region. Thus, strategic issues become the basis upon which regional governments formulate their policies and work programs. This study examined how each region in Bangka Belitung Islands Province positioned strategic issues of ecology in its regional development planning. The current writers examined eight regional governments’ Regional Medium-Term Development Plan (RMTDP) documents; one of which belongs to the provincial government, while the rest belongs to the regency/city governments. This study found that ecological issues comprised an average 17.6% of the strategic issues in all of the planning documents, the highest of which was found in Belitung Regency’s planning document. In addition, the analysis revealed that the general focus of the strategic ecological issues was environmental damage, which was reported by three of the regions as a result of mining activities. This study provides an illustration of how each regional government is committed to take ecological issues seriously and include them in the strategic issues at the regional level.
Highlights
Bangka Belitung is an Indonesian province with complicated ecological issues
The findings in this study support the conclusion that every regional government in Bangka Belitung Islands Province has positioned ecological issues as a part of regional strategic issues in its regional development planning documents
The current writers identified that an average 17.6 percent of the strategic issues contained in the regional five-year development planning documents were ecological issues
Summary
Bangka Belitung is an Indonesian province with complicated ecological issues. Environmental damage is widespread both on its earth and in its ocean [1]. The contorted topography has become a sensitive issue amidst the regional government’s efforts to keep its stability as a young province. The province is an archipelago, tin lies underneath its entire lands, making it one of the most contested regions since Dutch colonization [2]. Despite having been subjected to tin mining for hundreds of years, mining activities have never ceased to persist in Bangka Belitung. The emergence of people’s mining has led to even more extensive environmental damage [3, 4]. Tin mining was no longer carried out only by legal companies, and illegally by the people of the region [5]
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