Resilience process due to drougth of El Nino 2015 at Marampit, the outermost island of the Indonesia

Abstract

El Nino 2015 has made a prolonged drought. This phenomenon has influenced the attitudes and perspectives of the people towards nature. This study aims to describe the change in natural management at the post-drought. El Nino causing the debit of five water springs decreased and dried. This condition trigered to conflicts of interest and ownership of the spring betwen Laluhe and Marampit Villages. The community rise its awareness to the importance of trees around the spring so that they tried to replant tress and to limit the use of natural resources and provide a village regulation in 2012 on the good governance of natural resources. In 2017, five other villages on Marampit Island agreed to support the efforts of tree planting and protection of springs done by Marampit villages. The Marampit community can be catagorized as a higher perspective and care of its nature resource than the others. In fact, the changing in natural resource management is more influenced by culture than other social factors. This social capital is an opportunity to improve environmental conditions to be more stable.