Material Resources, Natural Assets and Integral Development: An Asian Perspective In The Context of Decentralization, Poverty, and Social Exclusion

The relationship between Material Resources, Assets (natural, technological, intellectualresources) and Integral Development is a major and highly significant issue in the currentglobal conditions and in the context of globalization. This paper is focusing specifically onthe relationship between Material Resources, Assets (especially natural assets), and IntegralDevelopment in an Asian Country which is Indonesia for the past decade (1999-2009).The relationship between Material Resources, Natural Assets and Integral Development isfurther discussed in the context of Pope Benedict XV[ Encyclical Letter Caritas In Veritate(June 2009) based on the empirical research analysis. Specifically the opportunities,accomplishments, set-backs and challenges as lessons leamed.The relationship between natural resouces and development in the so-called developingworld is important. Three questions are especially relevant. First, what is the nature of therelationships between natural resources and development-in particular what are the relationsbetween the wealth of natural resources and the national industrialization strategy. Second,what are the relations between the wealth of natural resources and the character of therelations between state and society. Third, what are the relations between the process ofdecentralization and these pattems of relations in The Post New Order Era (1999-2009) onthe local level specifically how the mechanism of exclusion and inclusion of localcommunities involving local, provincial, and the lndonesian central state, and an MNCsurrounding the LNG Plant in the province of West Papua.