Oekan S Abdoellah

Universitas Padjadjaran | UNPAD · Faculty of Social and Political Science (FISIP)

The Indonesian government launched the B30 program (a mixture of 30% biodiesel and 70% diesel fuel) in 2019 to save foreign exchange, reduce dependence on fossil fuels, and improve environmental quality. Indonesia uses palm oil as the main source for making biodiesel, as proven by an increase in the domestic market demand for biodiesel by as much a...

Natural resource management (SDA) such as nickel has become a logical choice for local governments to achieve results for regional development achievement. This is because nickel is one of the trade and business commodities between countries. However, a permit is required for the management of these natural resources. Meanwhile, the government cann...

Historically, development has been viewed as an economic process that generates many social difficulties, ranging from increased environmental degradation and inequality to social fragility within the local community’s culture. The problems require a new strategy by applying the principles of human and ecological-based development. This study takes...

Indonesia’s batik industry is growing rapidly, including the segment specializing in natural dyes. However, this has produced concerns regarding sustainability deriving from, for example, the use of environmental pollutants in the field. This research aims to propose a set of preliminary indicators to facilitate the assessment of the sustainability...

Urban farmers who want to produce food for export must adhere to an environmental certification program due to the scarcity of resources in cities and the unpredictability of the international food trade. This paper employs a descriptive narrative technique along with a qualitative methodology. The relevant data were collected through observation,...

Development effort oil and gas experience enhancement enough fast, existence activity the Fulfill needs energy national. Indonesia is a developing country have backup oil and gas that became support growth economy and development however has the potential to cause impact to environment especially in area around industrial areas. PT. MEP is one of t...

Kamojang geothermal energy source is a source of thermal energy the first earth researched in Indonesia. This study aims to examine the production of law as a political instrument of the government environment and analyze it in the perspective of political ecology. The research design used was qualitative descriptive using a political ecology metho...

These days, urban agriculture is more than a hobby. It has expanded into a local commercial business, even to an export scale. However, urban farmers who have commercialized their products must adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic situation, which has impacted many aspects of global life. This research used a mixed-method approach. We collected quantitat...

The role of the community and their collaboration with other actors are the attempts that are assured to ensure the sustainability of forest management. This study analyzes the role to determine the powers and interests as well as to classify groups by analyzing the interests and influences and analyzes actor-network by using Social Network Analysi...

In the early 2000s, the economic recess marks the rise of the informal sectors as the following impact from rampant unemployment, especially in several third world countries, including Indonesia. In the other hand, there are significant paradigm shift within the science of public administration. A shift, towards a more citizen-oriented, humane, and...

The Development of palm oil in Indonesia has been associated with its environmental impact. Concerns such as deforestation, biodiversity, and greenhouse gas emission which will lead to climate change had triggered the stakeholders' urgency in initiating the sustainable palm oil certification scheme, namely RSPO (Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil)....

This research examines the struggle of women in rejecting development that is considered damaging to the environment. The problem asked in this study, namely "How is the process of the subaltern ecofeminism women's movement in Indramayu against the construction of PLTU 2 ?". Meanwhile, the purpose of the research is to describe the process of the s...

Urban farming has been transformed into urban agricultural activities oriented towards optimizing economic benefits through export market involvement. However, the expansion of the market has consequences for farmers. The involvement of urban farmers in export trade causes market pressures that affect agricultural production practices. This researc...

In the early 2000s, the economic recess marks the rise of the informal sectors as the following impact from rampant unemployment, especially in several third world countries, including Indonesia. In the other hand, there are significant paradigm shift within the science of public administration. A shift, towards a more citizen-oriented, humane, and...

Collective adaptation is a relevant discussion in association with the limited adaptive capacity of farmers to deal with climate change. This study aims to improve the collective adaptation of farmers through the identification of adaptive capacity assessments. A collective adaptation mechanism in the form of planning for rice planting time has suc...

Palm oil may use land that should be used by the local people for their food needs, causing them to shift elsewhere to grow food leading to deforestation in other areas. We called the phenomenon of disappearing forest covers due to indirect land-use change as indirect deforestation. To prevent indirect deforestation in Dusun Tonggong, we need to un...

Mulyanto D, Abdoellah OS, Iskandar J, Gunawan B. 2021. Ethnozoological study of the wild pig (Sus spp.) hunting among Sundanese in Upper Citarum Watershed area, West Java, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 22: 4930-4939. In the past, wild pigs had a high population in the rural ecosystem of West Java. However, the population of wild pigs, particularly Javan...

Buruan Sae is part of an integrated urban farming program implemented in the city of Bandung. The program relates to various urban farming products, which are mainly to meet their own food needs, and some are sold to the local markets. One of the targeted products is lime, but its cultivation is not yet well described. This study aimed to determine...

Background: Previous studies have suggested that exposures to heavy metals (arsenic, cadmium, lead, and selenium) may be associated with differences in blood pressure. However, the findings of these studies have been inconsistent. This study was performed to examine the associations between urinary heavy metal concentrations and blood pressure amo...

Changes from agricultural land to non-agricultural land are continuously occurring, especially in areas adjacent to cities. Land changes from agricultural to non-agricultural land will eliminate crops’ hydrological function, impacting rivers, including the Cirasea River. Besides, changes in agricultural land have an impact on the resulting agricult...

Community dedication to public understanding of the agroforestry system aims to increase awareness and participation in the Kertasari Subdistrict in practicing the agroforestry system without coercion or pressure. The method used is observation through interviews and discussions to share the knowledge. The activities stages were carried out, includ...

In developing countries, such as Indonesia, urbanization equates to industrialization. To actuate rapid economic development, the government generally puts in place strong policies to transform rural into industrialized peri-urban/urban areas. This triggers a number of environmental problems, one of which is the degradation of groundwater resources...

Urban farming is a solution to the food crisis and deterioration of the environment urban conditions. In the city of Bandung, there are communities that carry out urban farming activities that are packaged attractively. The strategy carried out by the community in the practice of urban farming is a tool capable of driving from a downturn in urban a...

Abstrak DAS Citarum mengalami perubahan struktur lingkungan yang tinggi yang berakibat pada penurunan kualitas lingkungan, sehingga diperlukan gambaran mendetail mengenai kondisi perubahan lahan vegetasi di DAS Citarum. Tujuan dari penelitian ini untuk mengetahui proses perubahan luasan lahan vegetasi di DAS Citarum, Bandung, Jawa Barat. Penelitian...

The target of 30% of Afghan women's representation in the civil service and decision-making positions by 2020 was not achieved. Currently, Afghan women only enjoy 27.5% representation in civil service and less than 15% in decision-making positions. However, the government promised to ensure at least 30% in each ministry and department by 2020 but t...

Urban farming activity in Bandung City contains an idea of women empowerment. That is because urban farming has done a lot by housewife. The Bandung City Government attempts to implement gender mainstreaming program in the development through urban farming. Therefore, an urban farming program in Bandung City designed by local government nowadays ha...

The biology of sharks makes them very vulnerable to fishing pressure. Globally, sharks are threatened because of uncontrolled fishing due to the increasing demand for their fins. In Indonesia, shark fishing occurs in almost all marine areas, and each area has different characteristics and conditions. Understanding the conditions and characteristics...

The purpose of this research is to identify the communication dialectics regarding the conflicts that occur between the government and environmental activists in the Indonesian Conservation Area. The activists refused the government's policy on changing the function of Kamojang nature reserve that has reserved it into a nature tourism park. The tra...

p> Abstrak: Praktik Kekerabatan Batak Toba Muslim sebagai Strategi Pengendalian Lahan di Asahan. Studi ini menunjukkan pemakaian relasi kekerabatan Batak Toba Muslim sebagai strategi penghidupan bagi penguasaan tanah dalam ruang penguasaan yang ganti berganti sejak era Melayu-Islam di Asahan melalui perspektif teori praktik dari Bourdieu. Penelitia...

Reservoirs play a strategic role in the context of sustainable energy supply. Unfortunately, the majority of the reservoirs are facing water-quality degradation due to complex pollutants originating from activities both in the catchment and inside the reservoir. This research was aimed at assessing the extent of the water degradation, in terms of c...

Pemilu merupakan salah satu mekanisme perubahan politik, perubahan tersebut bukan hanya ditujukan untuk para elit politik tetapi juga masyarakat, keterlibatan masyarakat dalam pemilu akan berpengaruh pada proses kebijakan yang dikeluarkan dan sistem pada negara tersebut. Di Indonesia Pilpres secara langsung dilaksanakan secara berkala per lima tahu...

This article discusses the impact and effectiveness of the Positive Discrimination Action on Afghan women’s participation in Civil Service in the Post Taliban regime. In 2001, the newly established Afghanistan transition government accepted some international agreements on women's rights and declared it on the Afghanistan constitution 2004. Afghani...

Artikel ini mendiskusikan strategi rekrutmen perempuan pekerja seks prostitusi terselubung spa di salah satu kota besar di Indonesia. Pertumbuhan prostitusi di Indonesia mengalami perkembangan yang cukup signifikan, ditandai dengan banyaknya praktik prostitusi terselubung terutama di Kota Besar seperti spa plus. Praktik prostitusi terselubung di sp...

Homegardens have long been recognized for contributing to household food security, nutritional status, and ecological sustainability in especially poor, rural areas in low-income countries. However, as markets and policies drive the commercializa-tion of food and farming systems, and of rural livelihoods in general, it becomes increasingly difficul...

Media is the fourth element of power in four pillars of power in democratic countries. Power in a democratic country not only consists of the government or is called an executive, legislative power, judicial power, and press power. In this connection, the study carried out is a qualitative study concerning which the press is expected to function as...

Abstract. Hakim L, Abdoellah OS, Parikesit, Withaningsih S. 2020. Impact of agricultural crop type and hunting on bird communities of two villages in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 21: 57-66. Land use change has occurred in the Upper Citarum Watershed over time, converting tropical rain-forest to man-made cash-crop gardens dominate th...

ABSTRAKKegiatan PKM ini dilaksanakan berdasarkan temuan riset Tim ALG (Academic Research Grant) dengan judul “Sustainability Science in the Context of Rural-Urban Linkage: Case Study on the Impact of Ecological Change in the Upper Citarum Watershed to The Food Security and Sovereignity in West Java-Indonesia”. Kebijakan revitalisasi sungai Citarum...

Pengembangan ekowisata merupakan salah satu upaya pemanfaatan sumberdaya lokal yang optimal. Sejalan dengan praktek ekowisata berbasis masyarakat, konsep pariwisata berbasis masyarakat ini meru-pakan sebuah konsep pariwisata yang menekankan pada sisi pengembangan masyarakat dalam mengel-ola pariwisata yang ada. Konsep ini sering disebut community b...

Media is the fourth element of power in four pillars of power in democratic countries. Power in a democratic country not only consists of the government or is called an executive, legislative power, judicial power, and press power. In this connection, the study carried out is a qualitative study concerning which the press is expected to function as...

Indonesia's environmental policy in the conservation area is carried out by establishing the nature reserve as the highest conservation area in addition to wildlife reserves. The high level of damage in the nature reserve area requires collaboration integrated multi-party. Therefore, preservation activities of nature reserves require stakeholder in...

This article highlights the dynamics of geothermal energy in the Kamojang nature reserve in Indonesia. A nature reserve is a conservation area that must be protected and preserved, because it has unique flora and fauna, and rare ecosystems whose existence is threatened with extinction. After going through a long study process by an integrated team,...

The corporate sector plays an important role in the promotion of sustainable information and communication technology (ICT). This study aimed to understand how green computing practices have affected the economic and environmental performances of the corporate sector. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected in relation to green computing i...

Kegiatan PKM ini dilaksanakan berdasarkan temuan riset Tim ALG (Academic Leadership Grant) dengan judul "Sustainability Science in the Context of Rural-Urban Linkage: Case Study on the Impact of Ecological Change in the Upper Citarum Watershed to The Food Security and Sovereignity in West Java-Indonesia". Kebijakan revitalisasi sungai Citarum yang...

This study views street vendors as public issues which are related to the conflict over public spaces between the government and the street vendors. The conflict was derived from differences in the interpretation and meaning of public spaces. The government has visions of order in the city and tries to control the street vendor in public place. How...

This paper presents the operationalisation of stakeholders identity and salience theory (Mitchell RK, Agle BR, Wood, DT, Acad Manag Rev 22(4):853–886, 1997) with the purpose to classify the stakeholders involved in the household solid waste management in Cimahi City, West Java Province, Indonesia. This classification will benefit circularity of sol...

Afghanistan, a country with almost 30 million populations, is located at the heart (center) of Asia. This country has burned in the fire of civil war and conflict in the last 40 years. The sustained conflict in this country has damaged the fundamental and core roots of the development. A large number of citizens lost their bodies, injured and immig...

This research depicts the dynamics of street vendors’ resistance to the city government’s policy. The research applied qualitative approach with research strategy of case study. The research result showed that street vendors’ strategies in dealing with the city government were devised in various ways, both covert and open ones. Covert resistance te...

Pranoto, Rosariastuti R, Prihandoko A. 2018. Short Communication: The utilization and effectiveness test of andisol soil-bioball-Agrobacterium sp. toward heavy metal chrome removal. Biodiversitas 19: 1955-1959. This study was aimed to determine chrome metal adsorption and bioremediation ability using andisol soil, bioball, and Agrobacterium sp. The...

Husodo T, Palabbi SDG, Abdoellah OS, Nurzaman M, Fitriani N, Partasasmita P. 2017. Seagrass diversity and carbon sequestration: Case study on Pari Island, Jakarta Bay, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 18: 1596-1601. Pari Island is located in Kepulauan Seribu chain. As a tourist destination, the seagrass ecosystem at the island is constantly under pressure...

Referring to the emerging conflict-related social problems that challenge social cohesion and integration in the Post-Suharto Indonesia. This paper discusses the practice of social solidarity values called “Mapalus Kampung” which is originally found in Tounelet Village, North Minahasa District, North Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. The Mapalus-Kampun...

p> This study aims to desribe rationality of the people who live in eruption-prone areas of Mount Merapi and who refused to be relocated. Qualitative research is for this purpose. Informants were selected by snowball sampling technique. The location of research is in the Pangukrejo village which is a village in the southern slopes of Merapi. The re...

The number of pesantren that scattered in rural areas makes it as one of the potential of informal institutions in sustainable rural development. The aim of this study was to determine the potential of pesantren Buntet in sustainable rural development. The method used in this study was a qualitative method that carried out through unstructured inte...

Indonesia is facing household-level double burden malnutrition. This study aimed at examining (1) household-level double burden for the mother-child and father-child pairs; (2) risk of adiposity of double burden households; and (3) associated dietary factors. Subjects were 5th and 6th grade elementary school children (n = 242), their mothers (n = 2...

The effects of environmental chemicals on children’s health are important issues in Asian developing countries undergoing rapid urbanization, although little data have been reported. We investigated the organophosphorus (OP) pesticide exposure of 235 elementary school children living in three agricultural villages in the Citarum watershed, Bandung,...

We studied human perceptions on the management of bamboo-tree gardens in two villages with contrasting agroecological conditions in the upper Citarum basin. We undertook interviews to reveal perceptions on the tenure, function, and management strategies of multi-layered agroforest. Owners in a village located lower in the basin perceived the garden...

The situation of relative water scarcity becomes a classic problem in developing countries. This issue is not about the absence of water, but rather about the inequality with regard to access to water. Scarcity of water is a part of daily life for some though the area of abundant water resources. The factors that lead to this exclusion of water are...

Resiliensi telah banyak digunakan sebagai aspek penting dalam pengelolaan sumber daya alam danlingkungan karena merupakan atribut vital yang mencirikan kapasitas suatu sistem untuk mengatasi tekanan.Namun upaya untuk mempromosikan resiliensi tidaklah mudah terutama jika diterapkan pada konteks commonpoolresources (CPRs) yang cenderung bersifat open...

Abstract— The development of palm oil in Indonesia has been associated with its environmental impact. Concerns such as deforestation, biodiversity, and greenhouse gas emission which will lead to climate change had triggered the stakeholders’ urgency in initiating the sustainable palm oil certification scheme, namely RSPO (Roundtable on Sustainable...

Agroforestry systems have been re-evaluated with a renewed scientific interest as appropriate models for achieving sustainable production while maintaining planned and associated biodiversity and agroecosystem functioning. Traditional bamboo-tree gardens in West Java are known to play substantial ecological and socioeconomic roles. In this study, w...

Background/Question/Methods Most of the rural regions in Asian-Pacific countries undergo a rapid transition from traditional subsistence to cash economy-oriented agriculture and other subsistence mode. Such transition entails not only alteration of local “natural” environment but also introduction and release/accumulation of chemical substances, s...

The improper handling of pesticides in agriculture has caused serious health problems in many developing countries. In this study, we report the pesticide usage condition among Indonesian farmers and its association with symptoms of pesticide toxicity. A questionnaire survey on personal history regarding agricultural labor, pesticide storage and di...

We examined structural and functional changes in the homegardens of Sukapura village, located in the upper Citarum Watershed of Indonesia, in relation to the increasing commercialization of agriculture. Our main purpose was to examine the structure and function of these homegardens during the rapid economic development of this area and the ecologic...

A comprehensive study was carried out on a typical indigenous agroforestry system, called kebon tatangkalan, in the changing agricultural landscape of the Upper Citarum Watershed, West Java, Indonesia. The main objectives of the study are to elucidate the structural patterns, multidimensional functions, and dynamics of this multi-layered agroforest...

A study on resource acquisition and availability was carried out in an Indonesian village in relation to small-scale dairy production system. Despite the important role of local biological resources in providing low cost inputs like forages and firewood, lack of privately owned source of inputs among the majority of dairy farmers has resulted in gr...

The Citarum River in West Java is the largest water supplier to the Saguling Dam, which plays a major role in electric power generation for the entire Java Island and is used for the aquaculture of marketed fish. To elucidate the extent of degradation in water quality and its causes in the Upper Citarum watershed, physical, chemical and biological...