Tin Mining and Political Territory of Lom Indigenous People in Bangka Belitung, Indonesia

Abstract

This article is about the process of political territory on Tin mining at Lom Indigenous People location and their responses from a political economy perspective. Based on the qualitative analysis and case study approach this article showed that the dynamics of political territory progression is dual informal political territory which operates from bottom to up. Informal political territory runs through contested economic activity in unconventional tin mining involving Lom people as owners or as miners in small-scale voluntarily and independently and they also cooperate with any ethics both as in capitals and in miners. The informal political on up level as a constancy involves elders authority of the community to centralize the controlling of tin mining, new territory, and land claim property which raising a group of delinquency. The informal territory political practice indicates the existence of economic rationality among Lom indigenous people. Keywords—Indigenous, Rationality, Territoriality, Tin