The Consequences of Sago Planting Hamlet Program on Socio-Cultural Changes of The Kamoro in Mimika Papua

This study examines the consequences of various agrarian policies and development programs on Kamoro community in Mimika Regency, Papua Province. As a result FI Mining activities, people, who were originally nomads their customary lands, relocated to permanent settlement where they introduced intensive farming systems, one which was Sago Planting Hamlet (SPH/DST) Program that brought modern sago management. There contradiction because people have been accustomed rice as staple for decades due national food policy during New Order era damage ecological environment, especially wild forests. tries see how socio-cultural since implementation agricultural are relatively new them. Research question answered through descriptive qualitative approach, with primary data from in-depth interviews participatory observations, supported by secondary archive document searches, also spatial Landsat imagery. The results showed DST changes included adjustments social organization, liveli­hoods, natural resource What happened Kamoro: collapse production, reproduction, consumption systems society alienation traditional living cultures rely availability sources livelihood, has made undeveloped. Keywords: Intensive agriculture, Kamoro, plantations,