Socio-environmental challenges in the development of geothermal power plants in Geothermal Island
地熱発電所開発における社会環境的課題：地熱アイランドの事例 (AI 翻訳)
Andre Bonardo Yonathan Sitorus
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日本語
インドネシア・フローレス島（地熱アイランド）の地熱開発を政治生態学の枠組みで分析。6つの地熱事業区域が島の7.3%を占め、重要流域や先住民族領域と重複し、手続き的・空間的・言説的不正義が構造的暴力として機能。著者らは「グリーン・コロニアリズム」と批判し、空間ガバナンス改革と実質的FPICの執行を提言する。
English
This study uses political ecology to analyze socio-environmental conflicts from geothermal expansion in Flores, Indonesia's legally designated Geothermal Island. Mixed-method analysis (GIS + discourse coding of 184 extracts) shows six working areas cover 7.3% of the island, overlapping critical watersheds and customary territories, with FPIC failures and elite-dominated discourse. It argues the green transition reproduces extractive logics as 'green colonialism' and demands spatial governance reform and substantive FPIC.
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📝 gxceed 編集解説 — Why this matters
日本のGX文脈において
日本では地熱発電が再エネ拡大の柱とされる一方、本論文は海外地熱事業での社会的受容性や手続き的正義の欠如がプロジェクト長期化・企業レピュテーションリスクを生むと示唆。日本企業の海外地熱参画やESGデューデリジェンスにも示唆を与える。
In the global GX context
Adds critical evidence to global just-transition debates, showing that renewable expansion can reproduce colonial patterns. Relevant for policy frameworks on indigenous rights, FPIC, and energy transition governance beyond the usual Java-centric technocratic assessments.
👥 読者別の含意
🔬研究者:Provides a critical counterpoint to technocratic energy-transition studies, with a transferable political-ecology framework and mixed-method approach.
🏢実務担当者:Highlights material risks (land rights, FPIC) for developers and investors in geothermal projects in customary-land contexts.
🏛政策担当者:Signals the need for spatial governance reform and enforceable FPIC to prevent green colonialism in renewable expansion.
📄 Abstract（原文）
Background: Indonesia’s geothermal expansion is positioned as a flagship pathway to its net zero commitment, with Flores Island legally designated as Pulau Panas Bumi (Geothermal Island). Yet existing scholarship on geothermal transitions remains anchored in Java-centric, technocratic evaluations of policy and emission targets, leaving the spatial, hydrological, and procedural injustices unfolding in populated, semi-arid, customary landscapes systematically under-examined. This study analyses the socio-environmental challenges of geothermal expansion in Flores through a political ecology framework, mobilising the theses of conservation and control, environmental conflict and exclusion, and formation of environmental subjects. Methods: A desk-based mixed-methods design integrates GIS intersection analysis of 6 Geothermal Working Areas (WKPs) with critical watersheds and BRWA-mapped customary territories, alongside a directed thematic analysis of 184 coded quotations extracted from 40 Dewan Pers-verified media reports and civil-society publications (2017–2026). Findings: Six WKPs occupy 7.3% of Flores' landmass and overlap 18 critical watersheds in a semi-arid agrarian setting; WKP Sokoria entirely engulfs the 583.56-hectare verified Kawasan Adat Nua Saga, while WKP Oka Ile Ange enclosed 51% of Kawasan Adat Lewolema. Discourse analysis reveals that 70% of state voice concentrates in only 4 elite figures, while community resistance disperses across 28 grassroots actors centred on water and livelihood loss. The integration of spatial enclosure, procedural FPIC failure, and discursive delegitimization operate as systemic structural violence rather than implementation friction. Conclusion: Flores's geothermal transition reproduces extractive logics under a green vocabulary, constituting green colonialism rather than environmental justice. Achieving a genuinely just transition requires restructuring national spatial governance, legally protecting indigenous territories from overarching strategic mandates, and enforcing substantive FPIC to prevent the exclusionary capture of local socio-ecological systems. Novelty/Originality of this article: This study reframes Java-centric geothermal expansion by demonstrating how green energy deployment in semi-arid customary islands operates as systemic structural violence and spatial green colonialism.
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- semanticscholar https://doi.org/10.61511/bioculture.v4i1.2026.3861first seen 2026-08-01 06:14:31
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