ACTION NIMOR FOREST FARMERS

ACTION minor forest Farmers
So, the more reason to respect, not iika called
celebrate, weapons of the weak and always lost it.
The more reason to see the persistence WAY to
save themselves, the taunts and ferocity, in irony, in
actions would not fit on a small scale, in
hard head, in slow, in the make-puraannya,
in the fight back and forth, in disbelief to the sermons
elite, in the difficult effort to stay motivated-an
spirit and praxis that prevent the worst, and promising something
better.
James C. Scott, The Weapon Of The Weakness

Forest Farmers
Our picture of the actions of forest farmers often
colored a certain stereotype, usually a mixture
between the dramatic movement and romantic. Various shapes,
Farmers can demonstration forest or violent acts directed at forest Farmers Direct
on forest resources, such as land occupation (reclaiming),
wood burning and looting.
alftir common these days: some people gathered (usually
forest farmers), farmers along the forest off to the forestry office,
bring some posters and shouting specific demands. Otherwise
Thus, farmer-farmer forest forest usually go straight to the forest, tree plundering
(generally jatl), accompanied by the occupation of land, blasphemy, blasphemy,
curses and all the anger rnacam impingement.

The picture that refers to the collective action of such an open and fair,
but often-even-sudatr certainly not led to the
objective understanding of the original transcript of farmers and opposition political
poor people, those who belong to the lower classes.
The pesanggem and poor people living in Wonomukti
entirely from the forest, only occasionally do dramatic acts
Thus, and even then jar: angymrg on their own initiative. Within 20
kia last year can be calculated simply with five fingers, and guaranteed
will not be exhausted. Nevertheless, we can not conclude quickly,
that they sink into a false consciousness, hegemony, and
rremberikan approval muflak happened in the situation.
The actions they did were not as dramatic as what we
imagine, does not open, not collective; without posters, sporadic, often
without suata, no names, faint, small, and overall
resembles a dizzying guerrilla resistance. Actions
These are not attractive, especially if we imagine
a show that presents a direct fight between the two
parties. Here we are not going to find the fighter, or whatever
associated with direct gunfire, but merely acts
the terperhitungkan stubborn and sometimes carefully
accompanied by little notes regarding balance y ang income.
I think that kind of action which we will discuss in this section are
a specific form, far from the notion of action as long as we
understand.

What yanl we will discuss later, is not something totally
new, nor is typical of the local community action. Actions
This sort of happens everywhere, almost always accompany each
yung class relations involving small tradition and great tradition, they
controlled and mastered, the poor and the rich, labor and
employers, tenants and landlords, as found Scott in
Sedaka, when describing the changes due to trans adi
2 times the harvest policy (green revolution).

The forms of action which seems to be popular not have a weapon
the pesanggem and poor people in Wonomukti, to reject
or make specific claims, whether related to moral
and material, to the local forestry administration. In the eyes of
them, any relations of production associated with the forestry
should at least reflect a mechanism of economic morality. Stream
goods and services in each balance sheet in such an exchange must occur
way that can guarantee the basic social needs, usually in the form
.- subsistence needs, which also is the minimum requirement for
conceptions of justice and equity. Imbalances which
cause the minimum requirement is threatened, tend to result in
the declining legitimacy and trust, and certainly always
followed by actions.

This is the main theme to be discussed in this chapter, such
accountability demanded by poor people Wonomukti
of the local forestry administration. The subject of course
not only the parties pesanggem and forestry, but including
timber thieves too. We can not deny that illegal logging
has its own typical, involving the stakeholders who are not related
with the history of the fate of the local community, but We also can not be
turn that this action had the full solidarity daripara
pesanggem and poor people. In this chapter we will only
brief mention of the theft of timber, will be discussed selanjutrya
separately in subsequent chapters.

from the book:
"Resistance in Simpang Jalan"
By: Hery Santoso