Politics and Business: The Policy on Tin Mining in Bangka

Abstract

Many studies have been done on mining and its impacts, including in terms of political issues. However, this study provides new insights by focusing on conflicts between politics and business in tin mining in Bangka, Indonesia. This study aimed to assess political and business dynamics at local levels concerning the policy on tin mining management in Bangka Island. This qualitative research type used both primary and secondary data. It focused on the impact of implementing the policy on mining management, which opens opportunities for non state actors to get access to tin mining, in which politics is also involved. The study implies that authority competition and conflict of interests in the tin mining management in Bangka Island deflected its original goal, which was said to increase the local people’s welfare.