Antara Bencana Dan Permulaan Kehidupan: Studi Kebencanaan Kritis Terhadap Konstruksi Gagasan Kebakaran Hutan Dan Lahan Pada Masyarakat Dayak Ngaju di Kalimantan Tenga
Hanina Naura Fadhila, Dr. Agung Wicaksono, S. Ant., M. A.
2025 | Tesis | S2 Antropologi
Forest fires are a montage of series of economic, political, and ecological events. As the land of the largest and oldest peatland in Indonesia, Central Kalimantan became a crucial locus for problematizing the occurrence of forest fires. Forest fires are the arena of contestation between the assemblage of actors and actants transcending the demarcation of nation-state border. Thus, this research attempted to treat disasters as a constructed and embedded concept toward the notion of forest fires to meet a certain interests.
The construction process will examined through critical disaster studies approach, according to the ideas that the ruins and damaged caused by a ‘disaster’ was a result of inequal risk distribution and rooted at the power imbalance among the actors. Through the assistance of ethnographic methodology, this research will inquired the process of concept construction and various inequality that lingers within the daily life context of Dayak Ngaju indigenous community.
The result of this study showed that the attribution process of disaster concept to the phenomenon of forest fires coincides with the niches of global environmental conservation regimes. In addition, the attribution process of disaster also aims to obscure the protagonists of peat swamp forests degradation in Central Kalimantan, as well as extractive enterprises that lower peatland water tables depth thus lead to the state of ecological vulnerability. This obscuring process, must, certainly has a basis of legitimacy including reconfiguration of affective realms between prolonged human-forests entanglements and preparation of a set of instruments to strike, repel, or imprisoned those who ignites the fire in the midst of forest other than the state and its auxiliaries.
Kata Kunci : dayak ngaju, gambut, kebakaran hutan, studi kebencanaan kritis