The Takalar Coastal Community Resistance Movement Rejects The Sea Sand Mining Project For The Reclamation Of The Center Point Of Indonesia

Abstract

The beach reclamation project is carried out through a sand mining process in the middle of the sea. This is claimed to cause vulnerability to environmental damage in the form of coastal abrasion, thus giving rise to a resistance movement from the surrounding community. This qualitative study aims to obtain information about the forms and strategies of the resistance movement of the Takalar coastal community against the sea sand mines of the Center Point Of Indonesia reclamation project. This research involves the Takalar coastal community and movement actors who are members of the Galesong Raya coastal community forum and the South Sulawesi environmental vehicle. Data were collected through interviews and documentation using the method of snowball sampling. The collected data is then processed using reduction, presented then drawn conclusions. The results, the forms of the resistance movement is open resistance by making rejection petitions, demonstrations to government offices and people’s representatives, and conducting raids on sand mining vessels that are currently operating sand mining in the middle of the sea. Furthermore, the strategy used is advocacy. As a result, the Takalar coastal community movement succeeded in stopping the sea sand mining of the Center Point Of Indonesia reclamation project.