Implementation of Mining Affairs in Palu City from a Political Economy Perspective

Abstract

The detrimental impacts of mining include habitat degradation, contamination of the water, human rights abuses and the denying of the nature of common property. Several countries' experience indicates that natural-resource production, which is only exploitable, often ends in disappointment, both economically and environmentally. Although the mining industry still has the potential to improve welfare. Government regulations have indicated the division of authority to regions to be able to regulate themselves autonomously. So that way the people's wishes should be well appreciated with provisions that are not detrimental to society at large but still maintain environmental security, both politically and geographically. Since the mineral resources which is held is properly and wisely handled and can be a resource for enhancing the community's wellbeing