Abstract
This article aims to analyze collaborative management of flood-affected communities due to the overflowing of Lake Poso in Central Sulawesi Province. This is an implication of increasing the capacity of the Sulewana Hydroelectric Power Plant to generate electricity by raising the lake’s surface water. How is the involvement of stakeholders together, namely the government, companies, communities and indigenous peoples groups seen through Emerson’s collaborative governance concept. The collaborative governance consists of three dimensions of assessment, namely collaboration dynamics, collaborative action, and impact and adaptation. Research with a qualitative approach uses data collection techniques through interviews, documentation, and literature studies. collaboration of stakeholders consisting of the local government, Poso district level, sub-districts, villages, the company PT Poso Energi, and affected communities and indigenous peoples’ organizations. The collaboration that has been carried out has not been complete in resolving the problems and demands of the affected community. This condition is caused by the dynamics of collaboration between stakeholders, and the solutions offered have not met community expectations. Optimization of authority at each level of local government has not gone well, placing the government’s facilitation function, especially at the district and village levels. The lack of openness of companies in the cooperation carried out has caused community acceptance of the results of the collaboration to be unsatisfactory. The position of the hydroelectric power plant as a vital object related to energy provides dominant power to the company, although there is an inseparable bond between the affected community and the government at every level is an inseparable bond in the Pomona traditional community. The solutions provided are only limited and temporary; the community’s implications due to the overflowing lake are permanent and long-term.