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Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk menjelaskan persoalan kemiskinan di Flores dari perspektifekonomi politik. Melalui penelitian kualitatif dengan tinjauan kepustakaan, tulisanini berargumen bahwa kemiskinan di Flores disebabkan oleh akumulasi melaluiperampasan yang berkaitan dengan tiga hal pokok, yakni sejarah penjajahan yangpanjang, ketimpangan agraria, dan depolitisasi massa rakyat. Penjajahan yang panjangtelah menyebabkan perubahan struktur pemerintahan dan agraria demi akumulasimelalui perampasan. Ketimpangan agraria mempermudah proses akumulasi melaluiperampasan. Dengan hanya mengandalkan perlawanan spontan yang tak terorganisasi,proses akumulasi melalui perampasan tak terbendung dan terus mengeskalasi hinggasaat ini.This article aims to explain the poverty in Flores by using a political economyperspective. Through qualitative research method by literature review, this article arguesthat poverty in the region is caused by the accumulation by dispossession throughthree main areas, namely the long colonial history, agrarian inequality, and the depoliticizationof the masses. The long history of colonization has led to the change ofthe system of administration and the agrarian structure for the sake of the accumulationby dispossession. The agrarian inequalities facilitate the process of accumulation bydispossession. Just by relying on unorganized spontaneous resistances, the accumulationby dispossession is unstoppable and keeps escalating until today. |
