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Intra-village and inter-village conflict in rural coastal communities in Indonesia: the case of the Kei islands

Crawford School of Public Policy | Arndt-Corden Department of Economics

Event details

ACDE Seminar

Date & time

Tuesday 01 September 2015
2.00pm–3.30pm

Venue

Coombs Seminar Room B, Coombs Building 9, Fellows Road, ANU

Speaker

Associate Professor Budy Resosudarmo, Head of Indonesia Project, Arndt-Corden Department of Economics, Crawford School, ANU.

Contacts

Sarah Dong

Using rural coastal communities in Indonesia as a case study, we examine the underlying factors that may potentially be associated with the incidence of conflicts among local marine resource users. Resolving local resource conflicts is important for the implementation of effective development policies and resource management systems. Intra-village and intervillage conflicts are examined separately. Binary regression models are estimated using data collected from small-scale fishing household survey in the Kei islands of southeast Maluku.

We find that social relationships and individual perceptions of changes in fishery conditions are strongly associated with the incidence of both intra- and inter-village conflicts, but in a different way for each type of conflicts. Declining fish stocks is positively related with intervillage conflicts but not with intra-village conflicts. The association between the incidence of resource conflicts and social relationships are either positive or negative depending on whether the conflict occurs within or outside the village.

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