Model Pemberdayaan Masyarakat Ekologis Kultural Untuk Penyelamatan Mata Air Di Kota Batu

Abstract

The construction of the hotel that was opposed by the users of water resource triggered the emergence of social movement. While inititating movement, they initiated the programs of community empowerment as well. It means that the community empowerment is one of strategies of movement. Then, besides focusing on cultural activities, the other activities are the optimization of youth potentials and the care about community activities. In this context, the ecological cultural is joined by the other community interests. This strategy is effective because the empowerment stimulated the development of social network and local culture. The critic of this empowerment is culture is not a central of activities. The culture is still used as instrument for the conservation of environment. This stance is always questioned and criticized by the environmental and cultural activists in Malang Town. This article will describe the model of cultural ecological empowerment in Batu City that is described from the emergence of community empowerment, the forms of the community empowerment, the form of social changes after interventions, and the strengths and weaknesses of this empowerment. This article utilized the descriptive research method with ethnographical approach. Meanwhile, the used sampling is purposive sampling with eight subjects of research are activists of Nawakalam Gemulo, community based organization in Cangar Hamlet, Bulukerto Village, Batu City.

Compatibility, Effectiveness and Sustainability of Grass-Root Collaboration in Promoting Environmental and Natural Resource Conservation (An Evaluative Analysis)

“…Those activities brought out social learning in which the actors understand and learn from each other's perception [34]. In addition, these activities bridge and find the meeting point to solve the non-communicable problems [35]. This activity has an impact on the exchange of information between stakeholders, the arrangement of objectives in development stage, the participation and the communication between stakeholders [36].…”

“…So far, many descriptive studies have been conducted on collaborative conservation. Mangari Waatie explained the appearance, the programs, the gain, and the constraints with conservation in green belt movement in Kenya, Nairobi [1], while Susilo explained environmental movement and ecological empowerment in community-based organization [2], collaborative work in water source conservation initiated by community leaders, academicians, non-governmental organization, and community-based organization [3].…”

“…Collaboration will lead to a better decision making, provide fair and effective solution, while improving the capacity of actors to govern themselves [8]. The advantages of collaboration are reducing transactional loss, broadening social ecological resilience, and encouraging the implementation of improved governance [9], such as digging the problems, including the dynamic appearing and developing potential intervention [10], guarantee of the sustainability of organization in empowering other villages' organizations and democratization practice in water resource management [11], understanding and learning from each other in their own perception [12], the increasing of the quality of collective learning among scientists, stakeholders, and decision makers, encouraging credibility, relevance, and legitimacy of knowledge used to inform the decision can provide basic actions with meaningful and measurable outcomes [13].…”

Political Ecology Protection Spring Water in Batu

“…This forum was established as a Gemulo spring conservation organization that was threatened by hotel construction. This movement was then strengthened by the collaboration of the leaders of three villages, namely Bulukerto, Sidomulyo, and Bumiaji Villages, along with NGOs such as the Yayasan Pusaka, Brantas Conservation, Malang Corruption Watch (MCW) and WALHI (Susilo, 2017). Several attempts were made to protect the Sumber Gemulo springs, including conducting spring conservation, strengthening cultural awareness and environmental issues, and empowering youth potential (Susilo, 2017).…”

“…Conflicts over water resources management in Bulukerto Village is seen as a model of resistance and community empowerment in facing threats to the sustainability of spring water resources (Susilo, 2017) and (Lestari, 2019) . While this research, citing Satria's (2010) statement, wants to see resources, including water, as socio-political issues that are a political ecology issue, so this research is more focused on the political explanation of environmental degradation (Satria, 2010).…”