Ethnical Conflict in Central Kalimantan

by Wasita

Abstract

Ethnical conflict bursted out in Central Kalimantan cannot be set apart from cultural predicament. Factors that accelerated changes to come about were exposed relationship and introduction to governmental programs, whether policy or its field-implementatation. During the process it was probable that clashes of interest had taken place in every element of culture. Unless this situation was manage sensibly, seeds of jealousy prompted dissatisfaction to one party as a consequence of the successfully performed hegemony, whether individual or cultural, by the next party, which ultimately resulted resentment by the dominated party. Therefore, hegemony must be prevented from effective, whereas development policy and strategy must be based on a comprehensive life and cultural mechanism of the community as the subject of national progress.

(Source: Naditira Widya Special Edition Number 6, June 2001:81-90; ISSN 1410-0932)