| dc.description.abstract | Indonesia is a multicultural country in terms of differences in ethnicity,
religion, customs and regional differences. Sea nomads is one parth that shows the
diversity of the community. Sea nomads is an indigenous tribal community
inhabiting the waters of Riau Islands is concentrated in Batam waters around the
Straits of Malacca, the Strait of Philip, and the South of China Sea. Referred to as
the Sea Nomads because of its nomadic life by doing all the activities of life
activities staying in a boat or canoe roofed a “Kajang”.
Batam since 1987 designated as a strategic area of the border regions of
Indonesia, grew into regional industry, commerce, shipbuilding, and tourism
development of the region with authority. The rapid development of an indirect
impact on sea nomads life change such as; reduced fish catch due to pollution of
sea water is sourced from waste oil from shipbuilding companies, communities
increasingly narrow mobility due to some point on the mainland changed to
support the building industry, as well as the loss of access economic consequences
of breaking haul trade through barter system with a singapore and malaysia citizen
zoning result of cross-border security. The changes are posed by the government
to establish a special policy for se nomads in the form of Empowerment program
Remote Indigenous Communities (PKAT). With the out put in the form of
placement sea nomads to settle on the Bertam island.
However, the implementation of the program turned out to override aspects
of culture, tradition, and social stratification in community. The impact is the
emergence of dependency attitude with the help of residents, from the loss of
traditions and indigenous cultures such as “Silat”, “Jung”, and the
commodification “Joget” as a means of unifying the citizens, as well as
environmental pollution, and land ownership conflicts. This paper discusses the
approach to reviewing multicultural social work particularly in the social
intervention for indigenous communities to learn from the experience of the
implementation of the empowerment program has done for the Sea Nomads
community in Bertam Island. | en_US |
