Abstrak Pertambangan semen di suatu daerah memberikan kesejahteraan bagi masyarakat khususnya warga lokal dengan adanya rekrutmen karyawan, program-program pengembangan masyarakat dan bantuan dana Corpoorate Social Responsibility (CSR) di bidang perekonomian dan pendidikan yang membantu peningkatan perekonomian. Dalam proses pertambangan semen juga memberikam dampak lain pada kerusakan lingkungan yang melahirkan aksi protes dari masyarakat. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis keterkaitan Fenomena kutukan sumber daya, yang menyebabkan kerusakan lingkungan di PT. Semen Andalas Lhoknga, Aceh Besar dan keterkaitan Paradoks Kutukan Sumberdaya Alam dengan Penurunan Laju Perekonomian di sekitar pabrik PT. Semen Andalas Indonesia di Lhoknga, Kabupaten Aceh Besar. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif deskriptif. Data dari hasil wawancara yang diperoleh kemudian dicatat dan dikumpulkan sehingga menjadi sebuah catatan lapangan dan kemudian akan dianalisis yang berkaitan dengan fokus penelitian untuk mendapat penjelasan mengenai Kerusakan lingkungan di PT. Semen Andalas Indonesia dan keterkaitannya dengan teori Kutukan Sumberdaya Alam. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa masyarakat menerima keuntungan hadirnya pabrik dalam bidang ekonomi rekrutmen karyawan, pengembangan dibidang pendidikan dan bantuan dana Corpoorate Social Resposibility (CSR), tetapi masyarakat juga menerima dampak negatif. Kerugian yang dirasakan masyarakat tersebut melahirkan gerakan masyarakat dengan melakukan demonstrasi menuntut perusahaan agar lebih berpihak kemasyarakat jangan hanya menerima keuntungan. Kemudian akibat dari adanya gerakan masyarakat membuat perusahaan mengupayakan berpihak ke masyarakat, hal ini dapat dilihat bahwa ketika terjadinya aksi protes, pihak pabrik lebih cepat tanggap dalam menyelesaikan tuntuntan masyarakat. Namun hal ini tidak sebanding dengan kerugian sosial, ekonomi dan lingkungan yang diberikan pabrik. Kerugian seperti pencemaran air, pencemaran udara, kebisingan, dan retaknya sumur serta rumah-rumah warga sekitar yang berdampak pada penurunan tingkat perekonomian masyarakat masih tetap terjadi. Penelitian ini menemukan fakta bahwa daerah penghasil sumberdaya alam (dalam hal ini bahan baku semen) justru terjebak dalam fenomena Natural Resource Curse atau kutukan sumberdaya alam, dimana adanya sumberdaya alam di Lhoknga membuat masyarakat lokal merasakan kerugian yan lebih besar daripada keuntungan. Kata Kunci : Perusahaan Semen, Rekrutmen Karyawan, Corpoorate Social Resposibility, Kerusakan Lingkungan, Natural Resource Curse, Lhoknga. Abstract Cement mining in an area aims to provide welfare for the community, especially local residents through employee recruitment, community development programs and Corpoorate Social Responsibility (CSR) funds in the economic and education sectors that help improve the economy. In the semen mining process, another impact on environmental damage has resulted in protests from the community. This study aims to analyze the linkage of the natural resource curse phenomenon, which causes environmental damage in PT. Semen Andalas Lhoknga, Aceh Besar and the relationship between the Paradox of the Natural Resources Curse and the Decreasing Economic Rate around the PT. Semen Andalas Indonesia in Lhoknga, Aceh Besar District. This research uses descriptive qualitative method. The data from the interview results were obtained later and collected so that it became a field note and then analyzed related to the research focus to get an explanation of environmental damage in PT. Semen Andalas Indonesia and its relation to the theory of the Curse of Natural Resources. The results showed that the community received benefits from the presence of factories in the economic field of employee recruitment, education development and Corpoorate Social Responsibility (CSR) funding, but the community also received negative impacts. The loss felt by the community gave birth to a community movement that carried out corporate business demanding that they be more pro-society and not only receive profits. Then the result of the community movement made the company strive to side with the community, this can be seen that when there was a protest action, the factory was more responsive in resolving community demands. However, this is not proportional to the social, economic and environmental losses provided by the factory. Losses such as water pollution, air pollution, increase and recovery of wells and houses of local residents which have an impact on decreasing the level of the community's economy still occur. This research found the fact that Natural Resource Curse producing areas (in this case cement raw materials) are trapped in the phenomenon of the Natural Resources Curse or the curse of natural resources, where the existence of natural resources in Lhoknga makes local people feel a greater loss than profits. Keywords: Cement Company, Employee Recruitment, Corpoorate Social Responsibility, Environmental Damage, Natural Resource Curse, Lhoknga.