Ecology, Environment and Conservation Paper

RAPFISH ANALYSIS ON SUSTAINABILITY STATUS OF POST-TIN MINING IN JEBUS SUBDISTRICT, WEST BANGKA REGENCY, BANGKA BELITUNG ISLANDS PROVINCE, INDONESIA

Fitri Ramdhani Harahap, Ridhah Taqwa, Restu Juniah and Elisa Wildayana

Abstract

Bangka is well known as the largest tin producer in Indonesia that has widely ruined to the environment due to exaggerated exploitation. The extreme exploitation potentially generates landscape changes that are caused by the formation of giant pools with tailings and overburden. The aim of this research will analyze the sustainability of post-tin mining conducted in Jebus Regency, West Bangka Regency, Bangka Belitung Islands Province. The data are obtained by filling questionnaires which is assessed in three aspects such as environmental, economic, and social. These aspects contribute to the post-tin mining sustainability and arranged through observations, literature reviews, and previous studies. This study involved 166 respondents who were randomly selected in 11 villages in Jebus sub-district, West Bangka Regency. The results show that the post-mining sustainability status in multidimensional is less sustainable. The environmental and economic dimensions are less sustainable while the social dimension is sustainable. Sustainable or less sustainable status depend on the five greatest attributes of leverage sustainability status of tin mining in the environmental, economic, and social dimensions