PERMASALAHAN SOSIAL PADA MASYARAKAT LADANG BERPINDAH AKIBAT PERKEBUNAN KELAPA SAWIT DI DESA SEMPURNA KECAMATAN SUNGAI LAUR KABUPATEN KETAPANG

Abstract

Shifting cultivation is an agricultural system, that has the characteristic of cutting or slashing techniques, which are burned in dry land areas, there is no intensive irrigation and are palnted with sort-lived plants. In general, after being worked on for less than three years, they are left behind. The plants are of rice secondary crops with a simple processing technique, namely by using tugal, accompanied by land use and palnt maintaince without fertilization According to Koentjaraningrat (1977), Almost all of the people in Sempurna village before the palm oil plantations used to do shifting cultivation, but after the oil palm plantations began operating in 2002 the peoples who carried out shifting cultivation from 428 households recorded only 2.8% or 12 families. The purpose of this study was to examine the social problems of shifting fields due to oil palm plantation in the Sempurna village, Sungai Laur sub-district, Ketapang district. The benefits of this study as information to policy makers in Ketapang district about social problem in shifting fields communities due to the oil palm plantation in the Sempurna village, Sungai Laur sub-district, Ketapang district with the survey method. Data collection techniques through observation, interviews and documentation. Interviews were conducted by purposive sampling, namely the discussion in the form data analysis which included the interpretation of all data collected, arrange the results of the research in such away that it became clear and directed qualitative descriptive information. The indentity of the respondent taken based on the type of work of the respondent. The age of the respondents in this study was not determined because in this study the respondents selected were not based on age but based on who  the people were still doing shifting cultivation. Administratively, Sempurna Village is an area in the sub-district of Sungai Laur, Ketapang Regency with an area of 992 (ha). The problem is faced by the people still doing shifting cultivation is that every year they find difficult to get land, so the people who use the protected forest of Gunung Palung National Park, the reason they dare to use protected forest areas as they cultivate because, more difficult to get land because those who are not protected forest area are now increasingly planted with oil palm plantations.Keyword : Ketapang District, Palem Oil, Sempurna Villages, Shifting Cultivators, Sosial Problems