Abstract
This research aims to describe the process and reveal the origin of social conflict in the incoming oil palm investment. Twelve Subjects are involved in this research, located in Laman Satong Village, Ketapang District, Kalimantan Barat Province, Indonesia in February-May 2019. The results showed that a threat to society's identity meaning which depends on the forest was an origin of social conflict. The incoming of oil palm investment was considered as a threat because of the limited formal communication channel, through socialization meetings This limitation indicated to slow down their stock of knowledge renewal, that related to their future fate. Thus, it creates worries that caused resistance and internal community conflict itself. Academically this research contributes to establishing the social conflict theory and stock of knowledge concept in terms of conflict in the incoming of oil palm investment.
Highlights
Since comercially cultivated in 1911, Indonesian oil palm grew gradually, slowed down when World War II struck in Europe and Japan occupied Indonesia territory (Stoler, 1983)
Ketapang is the district with the largest oil palm plantation in Kalimantan Barat, reaching a total area of 387,254 hectares (Badan Pusat Statistik Provinsi Kalimantan Barat, 2017)
The pre oil palm period is the time of Laman Satong inhabitants lived up to 2006, before any plan or the socialization of oil palm
Summary
Since comercially cultivated in 1911, Indonesian oil palm grew gradually, slowed down when World War II struck in Europe and Japan occupied Indonesia territory (Stoler, 1983). It grew dramatically in the New Orde regime through assigning Cultivating Right to private oil palm companies and it aligned with Nucleus Estate Program. The existence of oil palm provides benefit directly felt by oil palm farmers, in the form of income increase (Alwarritzi, Nanseki & Chomei, 2015). The existence of oil palm plantations can accelerate the development in the regions and open access to remote areas (Obidzinski, Dermawan & Hadianto, 2014)
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