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Dr. Elsina Titaley, M.Si
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Maluku
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Komunitas: Jurnal Ilmu Sosiologi
Published by Universitas Pattimura
Jurnal komunitas sebagai jurnal ilmu Sosiologi online diterbitkan oleh Jurusan Sosiologi Fakultas Ilmu Sosial dan Ilmu Politik Universitas Pattimura. Komunitas dalam ilmu sosiologi memiliki arti sebagai sekumpulan orang berada pada lingkungan yang sama, saling mengenal dan saling sepenanggungan. Berkaitan dengan itu, Komunitas dalam jurnal online ini, mengandung makna kumpulan Sosiolog yang mempunyai rasa sepenanggungan bertanggungjawab secara akademik dalam mengembangkan ilmu sosiologi melalui penulisan-penulisan ilmiah sesuai dengan perkembangan masyarakat. Jurnal Komunitas diterbitkan pada bulan Mei 2020 dan waktu penerbitan berkala 2 (dua) kali satu tahun pada bulan Mei dan Oktober. Artikel yang diterima dan akan diterbitkan berkaitan dengan ilmu sosiologi.
Articles 64 Documents
Women, Work, and Family: A Sociological Study on Female Income Contribution in Rural Maluku Communities Heatubun, Ave Maria Stella; Turukay, Martha; Sopamena, Junianita F.
KOMUNITAS: Jurnal Ilmu Sosiologi Vol 9 No 1 (2026): Komunitas Volume 9 Issue 1, May 2026 (On Process)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30598/komunitasvol9issue1page1-18

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This study aims to analyze women’s economic contribution to household income and the dynamics of their dual roles within rural communities in Maluku, particularly in Sawai Village. Although men are traditionally recognized as primary breadwinners, socio-economic transformations have encouraged women to engage in productive activities such as farming, trading, tailoring, and public employment, yet their contributions remain socially and statistically undervalued. Using a qualitative approach within the framework of economic sociology and gender studies, this research employs in-depth interviews, participant observation, and social documentation, analyzed thematically through categories of economic contribution, domestic roles, social perception, and gender adaptation. The findings reveal that women in Sawai play a significant role in sustaining household economies, contributing an average of 28.38% to total income, with the highest contribution (42.70%) coming from formal employment. These results indicate a shift in the gendered division of labor, as women become integral to household economic structures despite limited social recognition under prevailing patriarchal norms. The study’s novelty lies in applying a locally grounded economic sociology perspective to postcolonial rural Maluku, integrating quantitative and qualitative insights. Theoretically, it advances discourse on gendered economic participation, while practically offering policy implications for culturally sensitive women’s economic empowerment in Indonesia’s eastern rural contexts.
Corporate Agrarian Expansion and Rural Livelihood Reconfiguration: A Sociological Analysis of Agrarian Structure Transformation in Rural Maluku Lodarmasse, Delvien; Sopamena, Junianita F.; Siwalette, Jeter D.
KOMUNITAS: Jurnal Ilmu Sosiologi Vol 9 No 1 (2026): Komunitas Volume 9 Issue 1, May 2026 (On Process)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30598/komunitasvol9issue1page19-37

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This article examines how large-scale corporate plantation expansion reconfigures agrarian structures and reshapes rural household livelihood strategies in an island context. Focusing on the entry of PT Spice Island Maluku into abaca banana plantation development in Kawa Village and its surrounding areas in West Seram Regency, this study employs a qualitative sociological case study approach. Data were collected through in-depth interviews, field observations, and document analysis of land lease agreements and village policies, involving 60 informants comprising landholding farmers, plantation laborers, customary leaders, and village officials. The findings reveal that corporate plantation expansion produces an asymmetric agrarian transformation in which formal land ownership remains with local farmers, while substantive control and land use are transferred to the corporation through long-term leasing mechanisms. This shift weakens farmers’ effective control over land, accelerates the transition from diversified subsistence agriculture to market-oriented monoculture, and compels rural households to adopt defensive livelihood strategies reliant on wage labor and residual economic activities. The novelty of this study lies in demonstrating that agrarian change does not necessarily occur through formal land dispossession, but through functional land control that generates concealed agrarian domination and new forms of economic dependency. This research contributes to agrarian and rural sociology by advancing a more nuanced understanding of non-formal land control mechanisms and by enriching empirical discussions on agrarian transformation in underrepresented island regions.
Beyond Infrastructure: Personnel Capability, Power Reliability, and the Social Production of Operational Effectiveness in Border Security Suhardiyanto, I Wayan Agus; Hasudungan, Ferdinand; Ramsi, Oktaheroe
KOMUNITAS: Jurnal Ilmu Sosiologi Vol 9 No 1 (2026): Komunitas Volume 9 Issue 1, May 2026 (On Process)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30598/komunitasvol9issue1page38-53

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This study examines border security operational effectiveness beyond technological determinism by emphasizing its social production through personnel capability and power system reliability. Challenging policy and technical discourses that privilege infrastructure as the primary driver of performance, the study conceptualizes effectiveness as a socio-technical outcome shaped by the interaction of technology, human skills, and organizational conditions in geographically isolated regions. Using a quantitative explanatory design, data were collected from 185 personnel of outer island security task forces under Kodam XV/Pattimura. Hybrid satellite communication utilization, personnel capability, power system reliability, and communication–electronic effectiveness were measured through structured questionnaires and analyzed using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM). The findings show that personnel capability exerts a strong and significant positive effect on operational effectiveness, whereas communication technology and power reliability display no significant direct effects when considered independently. However, their simultaneous interaction generates a substantial synergistic effect, explaining over 80% of the variance in effectiveness. These results indicate that infrastructure and energy systems function primarily as enabling conditions, while performance emerges from the capacity of personnel to translate technological potential into coordinated organizational action. The study contributes to socio-technical systems theory, extends organizational sociology to security institutions, and provides rare empirical evidence from peripheral state contexts in the Global South.
Reframing Community Participation in Water Governance: A Comparative Sociology of Justice and Rural Water Access in Eastern and Central Indonesia Suryadinata, Theofilus Apolinaris; Mundayat, Aris Arif; Zuber, Ahmad; Akbar, Rezza Dian; Rahmawati, Triana; Wulandari, Effieta Alfi
KOMUNITAS: Jurnal Ilmu Sosiologi Vol 9 No 1 (2026): Komunitas Volume 9 Issue 1, May 2026 (On Process)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30598/komunitasvol9issue1page54-67

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Limited access to clean water in rural Indonesia not only affects public health and well-being but also reflects structural challenges in water governance, particularly regarding the quality of community participation. This article examines the dynamics of community participation in water governance and its implications for equitable water access through a comparative study of rural areas in eastern and central Indonesia. The research was conducted in Cunca Lolos and Cunca Wulang villages (East Nusa Tenggara) and Banyuurip Village (Central Java) using a qualitative comparative case study design. Data were collected through field observations, in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, and document analysis, and were thematically analyzed by conceptualizing participation as a socially embedded process shaped by power relations and local institutions. The findings reveal that community participation largely remains functional, limited to technical and operational involvement without equal influence in planning and decision-making processes. This pattern occurs across differing ecological contexts, indicating that water inequality is driven less by natural scarcity than by institutional and social structures. Limited participation contributes to unequal water distribution, weak transparency, low collective ownership, and fragile management sustainability, positioning water governance as an arena for reproducing local power relations. The study reframes participation as a layered social practice rather than a normative program indicator, emphasizing that participation quality is central to achieving water justice in rural governance.