Journal of Coastal Zone Management

Abstract

How Distributional Conflicts Theory Explain Factors Affecting Institutional Changes In Coral Reef Governance? Lessons Learned From Gili Indah Village, West Lombok Indonesia

Aceng Hidayat

This article aims at explaining factors affecting the successfulness of coastal communities of
Gili Indah in constructing a governance structure of coral reef management. Coral reef management in
this region has changed from an ineffective state regime to a local governance. From the perspective
institutional economic theories, the emergence of a governance is an institutional change phenomena
that are affected, among others, by actors’ characteristics such as organizational experiences,
opportunistic behavior, environmental awareness/perception, planning horizon, bargaining power,
technological skill and certainty; and trust, distrust and reputation. Using a distributional conflict
theory of institutional change, the results of this research can draw a conclusion that institutional
change process of coral reef management in the locality was strongly assumed affected by those factors.