Resilience and Communication Strategy of the Samin Community Facing the Cement Industry in Central Java, Indonesia

EasyChair Preprint 4034

Abstract

The Samin community, whose lives rely on their surroundings, have experienced great external pressure which is interesting to discuss. Especially when the power of large investors in the name of development insisted on building a cement industry in the Kendeng Mountains region of Central Java. The plan is very disturbing community life around the Kendeng mountains where Samin residents live. How is the resilience and communication strategy of the Samin community in the Kendeng mountain region to deal with this pressure? The purpose of this study is to describe the form of resilience and life strategy of the Samin community in dealing with the power of investors. This research method is qualitative with ethnographic approach. The results showed that the strategies and social communication of the Samin community proved to be effective in building social movements in resisting industrial development. The response of the Samin community to the pressure of the development of the cement industry appears in two mainstream, namely (1) the Samin community directly rejects a market economy that tends to be profit oriented; (2) the Samin community tries merely to make ends meet, so that it is more appropriate to say apathetic.

Keyphrases: Industry, Resilience, Samin, communication, social

@booklet{EasyChair:4034,
  author    = {Agung Wibowo and Waskito Wardojo},
  title     = {Resilience and Communication Strategy of the Samin Community Facing the Cement Industry in Central Java, Indonesia},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 4034},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2020}}