Tin Folk Mining in west Bangka District of Province of Bangka Belitung Island And the Impact on life Environment

摘要

Bangka Belitung Island is the largest tin-producing island in Indonesia and second only to Malaysia. With the decline of the tin industry since 1991 due to the decline in world tin prices are resultPT. TimahTbk must stop some mining activities in Bangka Belitung Island to reduce production costs and provide opportunities for tin mining people to mine on traditionally abandoned land. However, over time this lead mining of the people resulted the negative impact on the environment because mining is done not only in the former mining land of PT. Timah, Tbk but began to expand into protected forest areas and conservation forests, as well as near the Watershed (DAS) which ultimately resulted in flooding du ring the rainy season. This research is a qualitative research aims to analyze the impact of tin mining people against floods in the province of Bangka Belitung Islands and analyze the efforts made by the Provincial Government of Bangka Belitung in flood tackling due to tin mining people. The results showed that human factors greatly affect the environmental damage. It is necessary to formulate policies that regulate the people's tin mining and supervision of the tin mining activities of the people.