Indonesian Journal of Community Engagement Jurnal Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat Vol. 7, No. 3, September 2021, Page. 195 –200 DOI: http://doi.org/ 10.22146/jpkm.49267 ISSN 2460-9447 (print), ISSN 2541-5883 (online) *Corresponding author : Suherman Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Bulaksumur, Senolowo, Caturtunggal, Depok Sleman 55281, Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia Email: suherman.mipa@ugm.ac.id Copyright © 2019 Jurnal Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat (Indonesian Journal of Community Engagement). This work is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Vol. 7, No. 3, www.jurnal.ugm.ac.id/jpkm 195 Community Dynamics of Tanjung Obit Village, the Bacan Island, South Halmahera: A Social Resilience Perspective Kharirotul Suhaila 1 , Suherman 2 * 1 Departemen of Fisheries, Faculty of Agriculture, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia 2 Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia Submitted: April 9 th 2021; Revised: August 4 th 2021; Accepted: September 4 th 2021 Keywords: Dynamics Social resilience Natural resource potential Abstract Tanjung Obit Village is one of the villages in Bacan Island, South Halmahera. Recently, Tanjung Obit has socially and economically is developing rapidly because its main economic activities are driven by gold and bacan stone mines. Besides this, Tanjung Obit Village has the potential of natural resources in the form of plantations and fisheries which are very abundant. Mining activities and natural resource management activities affect people’s lives there, especially in terms of the economic aspect. The study aimed to understand and analyze the social resilience of the community. The data collection was conducted through interviewing community leaders, asking the village residents to complete a questionnaire and field observations of the village. The findings of the study showed that in their daily life, people had maintained their social and social resiliencies. In terms of the economic aspect, the optimization of natural resources potentials was very important to improve their social welfare. In addition, by implementing the four aspects of social resiliencies comprising mimicking, adaptive, and transformative capacities as well as local wisdom, Tanjung Obit’s people had survived and been capable of developing themselves further in the future. 1. INTRODUCTION President Jokowi has designated 122 districts as underdeveloped regions for 2015-2019. The stipulation contained in the Presidential Regulation (Perpres) Number 131/2015 concerning the Stipulation of the Underdeveloped Areas for 2015–2019. Underdeveloped areas are regencies whose people and regions are less developed than other regencies on a national scale. It is challenging to reach these areas due to their geographical characteristics. They are in remote locations in the interior part of the region. These areas have hills, mountains, islands, coasts, and small islands or other geomorphological factors, making it difficult to reach them by both transportation and communication networks (Bappenas, 2008). Botang Lomang Islands is a sub-district in the Bacan Island cluster in South Halmahera Regency, North Maluku Province. These areas consist of regencies that are considered underdeveloped based on the provisions about the required indicators and sub-indicators that are regulated by ministerial regulations. This determination is in stark contrast when viewed from the perspective of its natural resource wealth. Even though it holds the title of an underdeveloped area, this area's natural resource potential is very abundant. Ecologically, South Halmahera Regency, with its inhabitants relying on agriculture and fisheries (BPS, 2017), has high potential local genetic resources for various agricultural and plantation crops. Different fisheries potentials are in the forms of marine biota commodities as well as conservation and ecotourism destinations. In addition, the possibility that exists is crop plantations such as nutmeg, walnuts, coconut, and sugar palm. Arenga pinnata (merr), which is a palm plant, is one of the genetic resources in the tropics.