GREEN BELT OF BINTUNI BAY Ethnographic Studies on the Introducing Program for the Implementation of Carbon Emissions Reduction in Bintuni Bay Regency, West Papua

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The construction of mega Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) project operated by British Petroleum has apparently a significant impact on the lives of various tribes in Bintuni Bay Regency, West Papua Province, such as Sumuri, Wamesa, Irarutu, Sough, Kuri, Sebyar. These impacts are both positive and negative. Mega Tangguh LNG Project, located in the district of Bintuni Sumuri, Tofoi Kampong, has forced the indigenous tribes to move to another location, i.e. Onar Kampung Baru. Due to the migration and development of the Tangguh LNG project, a lot of social problems occur. One of them is the change in the livelihood systems of fishing to farming. Mangrove forests have many functions. primarily economic one, as a place for fishing communities and the ecological function as pollutant absorber. The mega LNG projects have made the mangrove forest disfunctional, both economically and ecologically. Climate change issues as discussed in today’s vibrant international environment seems to have occurred in the Gulf region Bintuni from the land clearing for Tangguh LNG mega projects. Bintuni Bay area that was originally a mangrove forest in Asia is changing dramatically. People who seek livelihoods as fishermen are now forced to rely on oar and have turned to farming systems, since the mangrove forest shrimp spawning grounds are now a gas refineries of LNG. Large Speedboats operated there as the primary means of transportation between the regions in the Gulf of Bintuni also take a part in reducing fish populations. Based on the problems mentioned above, the questions that will be the main focus in this study can be formulated as follows: 1. How is the introduction of the implementation of programs to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in the Gulf region Bintuni carried out? The process of cultural adaptation to the environment is seen as a form of dialectical relationship. In this context, it is the relationship of interdependence with one another. Environment plays an important role in the behavior of Society has its own perspective on the surrounding environment. By using the method of participant observation research and using functionalism paradigm as a model of analysis, the results of this study will be presented in the form of ethnographic narratives.

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