Natural Resources, Human Rights and Social Impacts (East Kutai District and North Lampung District Cases)

Abstract

This paper is has been inspired by two latest researches towards natural resources and its local people relation (as mutual life’s relationship) in 2003 and 2005. Either East Kutai or North Lampung District has similar portrait situations. At the locations both research found real ‘lack’ situation on local people lives. Local people here is mentioned in broad meaning, Those are covering masyarakat adat (quoted by adat structure and adat law; and prior domestic migrants from another islands). At the research conducted showed in lesser public facility (basic school, health service) and public infrastructure’s (access road out of villages, local market). Different factors was found are about natural resources potency in East Kutai has huge amount and diversity of natural resources but scarce at North Lampung area. This paper also describes concerning lack and mis-policy practiced by local and central government. Shortly, at both location has illustrated marginalisation through local people access to natural resources that ensuing and inherently due to social impacts. Unjustice happened, human rights has been violated and due produce unfortunately social impacts over there by lower capablity on people which is influenced by either less or huge natural resource they own.