Peasant Resistance Movement towards BKPH (Bagian Kesatuan Pemangku Hutan – Forest Management Unit)

This study examined the social movements of Kedungdendeng peasants, the resistance carried out by Kedungdendeng peasants using a critical ethnographic perspective, especially the process of the occurrence of the peasant resistance movements, the forms of pre-reform peasant resistance and the forms of peasant resistance postreform. The research was located in Kedungdendeng hamlet, Jipurapah village, Jombang district. The informants were taken using a purposive sampling, and indepth interviews were used to explore informants who were actors in the social movement of peasants. This study used deprivation relative and the daily resistance theories. In conclusion, the social movement by Kedungdendeng peasants is the peasants’ social movement happened because of deprivation relative condition in society due to the existence of a dualism of law and supported by the existence of intimidation from BKPH Ploso Barat. They took the land and timber illegally as a form of peasant resistance. Postreformation, the old forms had been changed, and then they used law and bureaucracy path, yet safety remains a