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Cultural Fluctuation of Lake Communities by the Shrinkage of Lake Limboto, Indonesia

Version 1 : Received: 6 December 2023 / Approved: 6 December 2023 / Online: 7 December 2023 (06:33:46 CET)

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Baga, M.; Jahja, M.; Sakakibara, M.; Kasamatsu, H. Cultural Fluctuation of Lake Communities by the Shrinkage of Lake Limboto, Indonesia. Sustainability 2024, 16, 704. Baga, M.; Jahja, M.; Sakakibara, M.; Kasamatsu, H. Cultural Fluctuation of Lake Communities by the Shrinkage of Lake Limboto, Indonesia. Sustainability 2024, 16, 704.

Abstract

The fluctuation of the conditions on Lake Limboto affects people's activities around the lake. They try to survive by facing the problem of the lake, which is shallowing and narrowing. Yet the lake is predicted will be disappeared in 2030. This means that the productivity of the lake also diminishes. This article aims to analyze how the communities around the lake respond to the evolution and shocking prediction toward the lake into their daily activities. This study uses an interdisciplinary approach by integrating some fields of study to understand and solve the problems. One of the approaches involves interviewing people around the lake. Nevertheless, the base of the study is socio-cultural studies, which uses also old texts and oral literature as the support of the study. The research needs the theory of cultural studies to look at the survival and resilience of the people of lake so that they form their special daily activity. The results of the study show that some people know that there is a prediction of disappearing of the lake, but they have not anticipated it, as if this problem is only a government affair. They still live at the lake bank, try to survive and to be resilience even in poor conditions.

Keywords

culture; fluctuation; power of place; resilience; survival

Subject

Social Sciences, Area Studies

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