Comparison of Narratives by the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources and Greenpeace Indonesia: Critical Discourse Analysis of Mining Policy in the Raja Ampat Islands

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10.2991/978-2-38476-545-4_93How to use a DOI?

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Critical Discourse Analysis; mining policy; environmental communication; maritime governance; Raja Ampat

Abstract

This study critically analyses the discursive battle between the Indonesian Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) and Greenpeace Indonesia regarding mining policy in Raja Ampat, using Norman Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) framework. Through Fairclough’s three-dimensional model (textual, discursive, and social practice), this study reveals how these two actors construct conflicting realities regarding sustainable development. The ESDM narrative reflects an extractive development ideology that legitimises resource exploitation through the rhetoric of “strict supervision” and “sustainability”, while Greenpeace puts forward an alternative narrative centred on environmental justice, indigenous rights, and ecocentrism. These findings reveal mining policies in Raja Ampat as a form of green extractivism, where conservation rhetoric conceals an exploitative agenda that threatens the Coral Triangle ecosystem. This study contributes to the analysis of maritime ecological discourse by conceptualising green extractivism as a state-corporate hegemonic mechanism and expanding the theory of maritime environmental justice with an emphasis on indigenous community participation. This study recommends a paradigm shift from extractive governance to a sustainable blue economy based on fisheries and ecotourism as a fairer and more ecologically resilient alternative.

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AU  - Haeril Anwar
AU  - Alem Febri Sonni
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/03/13
TI  - Comparison of Narratives by the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources and Greenpeace Indonesia: Critical Discourse Analysis of Mining Policy in the Raja Ampat Islands
BT  - Proceedings of the World Conference on Governance and Social Sciences 2025 (WCGSS 2025)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1383
EP  - 1409
SN  - 2352-5398
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