Access to Natural Resources: Advancing Indonesia from Indigenous People by Implementing Strategic Management

Abstraksi

As it has 52.1% forested land, more than 62% of its area is inland seas, and other diverse natural resources, Indonesia has a potential to be advanced economically. Besides known as one of the countries with rich natural resources, Indonesia is also a home for more than 1300 ethnicities. This facts correlates with the fact that Indonesia is where indigenous people live. As the modernization and free market arise, this community is often left behind. Indigenous people need to face challenges such as recognizition from the government and their basic rights to access natural resources. Common problem of this issue is both government and public sector do not involve and consider the existence of indigenous people which leads to a deprivation of rights of the community. This paper identifies practices that will advance and preserve indigenous people rights to access natural resources based on three key elements in the ‘public sector strategic triangle’ framework by Mark Moore: public value, legitimacy & support, and operational capabilities. This paper finds that there is missing link between the law and regulations that regulate the issue towards the Constitution of Indonesia, the importance on strengthening on-the-ground support, and the existing policies do not oversee the outputs and have not been designed in a way that would track the fulfillment of indigenous people rights to access natural resources. The implications of this problem are the impoverishment toward the community, violation of human rights, and the need of strategizing management by the government.