Redressing Equity Issues in Natural Resource-rich Regions: A Theoretical Framework for Sustaining Development in East Kalimantan, Indonesia

Abstract

Despite having potentials for economic growth, natural resource-rich regions in developing countries, like East Kalimantan Province of Indonesia, often face problems emerged from unequal distribution of development benefits and extreme exploitation of natural resources. Economic inequality and poverty on one hand, and threat of unsustainability on the other, are thus common. Essentially, the problems share a common root of cause, namely inequity.