Deforestation as Violence Toward the Environment and Wider Community of Papua 2015-2019

Abstract

The existence of forests is a natural resource potential that benefits the country's foreign exchange and has various functions that have a positive impact in overcoming the backwardness experienced by the people of Papua. Economic and infrastructure development are the cause of the large potential loss of biodiversity wealth for the implementation of government policies and community needs. Deforestation as an effort to overcome these problems. This forest change is dominated by national forces that ignore human security, this has a major impact on environmental damage and surrounding communities that depend on forests. Through this theory, the author observes how deforestation by the government unintended disturbs human security and triggers various forms of violence by using the concept of the six distinctions of violence by Johan Galtung. Thus, the wealth of natural resources does not make the community more prosperous, but instead makes the community more miserable due to the conflicts and problems that arise in the area. Although deforestation that occurs in Papua will provide high economic benefits and ease of mobilization, deprivation due to deforestation will have a bigger impact to environmental and social than positive impacts that only benefit the stakeholders.