CONFLICT RESOLUTION ON MADURA SALT LAND: AS EFFORT TO INCREASE SALT FAMER WELFARE

Aktivitas Pegaram Rakyat di Madura
Sumber: Ihsannudin

ABSTRACT

Madura known as island of salt producers, since this island has wide area used to produce salt, approximately 12.326,73 Ha or 61, 36% of national salt land (20.089 Ha). For the local inhibitant, producing salt is part of a culture that has been done for generations, besides its also as a source of their livelihood.  There are two type of salt production in Madura, based on its ownership. First, local producers, implemented by local salt farmers that manage their own field or from land leases, and state-owned  enterprises,  PT.  Garam,  as  the  only  enterprises  that  produce  and  manage  salt  in Indonesia. In Madura, local farmers and PT. Garam are shared location, most of the fields are sharing boundaries, and some of them have no clear distinction of the ownership. As consequences, it was reported that some conflicts between The Enterprises and local communities occurred, as a result of resources grabbing, both land or sea water to produce salt. This research indicated three region of conflict location, which are Sampang District, Pamekasan District and Sumenep District. These district are known as large-scale salt producers in Madura. Unfortunately, this conflict is often not institutionalized and identified by the State, even more neglected, which is potentially destabilizing the society. Therefore, this research aims to explore on the conflict of salt area by answering these following research obejectives (1) identifying, mapping and build spatial database of the conflicts location, (2) identifying and collecting the conflict typology and (3) promoting feasible conflict resolution based on its typology and suitable approach.

Research location is determined purposively at 3 region as salt producer in Madura Island, which are Sampang, Pamekasan dan Sumenep District. This research use primary and secondary data for the analysis. Pimary data was obtained by observation, questionnaire and interview. Secondary data was obtained from the village office and sub-district office as government representatives closest to the community, National Land Agency as government representative of land right regulation and government  agency  concerned  with  salt commodity.  This  research  uses  qualitative  descriptive analysis method to describe information systematically and accurately based on facts and finding from the data, as well as the correlation between current state and phenomenon supported by quantitative data from the data collection.