Model of Community Development and Empowerment in the Mining Area

Abstract

In Karimun Island, approximately 70% of local own-source revenue comes from the mining sector, both from mining taxes for rock and sand types as well as royalties and metal mineral sales taxes. Mining activities in Karimun Island are found on land and waters. Hence, in these two areas, the ecosystem is disturbed due to their activities. The purpose of this research is to discover the condition or implementation of community development and empowerment around Karimun Island’s mining area. This research applied qualitative approach in which its data analysis began thoroughly by describing the facts revealed from the results, and emphasized its analysis on the process of deductive and inductive inductees. The results show that the implementation of community development and empowerment programs around the mine applied previously prioritized local wisdom. Meanwhile, based on government regulation decree, it shows that the Provincial Government of Riau Islands has not had a blueprint and a master plan for community development and empowerment in accordance with the mandate in Regulation of the Minister of Education and Culture No. 25 of 2018.