CULTURAL PUBLIC INSIGHTS ON PT. SDIC PAPUA CEMENT INDONESIA LIMESTONE MINING AT MANOKWARI

PERSEPSI MASYARAKAT TERHADAP PENAMBANGAN BATUGAMPING DI PT. SDIC PAPUA CEMENT INDONESIA MANOKWARI DITINJAU DARI SEGI BUDAYA

Abstract

People in the Doput village and Misapmeysi villages, based on their local knowledge and understandings, have different points of view in perceiving problems resulting from mining activities, particularly impacts that have been experienced. To find out the villagers’ perceptions, a questionnaire consisting of questions about language, local knowledge, technology, art, traditional livelihood, religion, and kinship was distributed to 50 respondents in the two villages. The results showed that 74%– 88% of the respondents have good perceptions in terms of local culture. This is because the respondents assumed that the local culture still existed, and even would be preserved both before and after the limestone mining activities of PT. SDIC Papua Cement Indonesia Manokwari. The average percentage of cultural variables were perceived from good to very good; language (74%), natural knowledge (88%), technology (83%), art (74,67%), living livelihood traditional (83,33%), religion (85%), and kinship (84%). In general, the results indicated that the limestone mining in Maruni has been positively perceived by the villagers, especially from the cultural perspective.