Institutional Change Of Indigenous Peoples In Response To The Forest Policy In Indonesia

This study is about the institutional changes of the indigenous people as a response to resource tenure conflicts, to take a place in Kasepuhan Community in Halimun Salak Mountain National Park and the Dayak Iban community in Sungai Utik forest. Legally, forest are controlled by the State. Through existing authority, the State can provide some of its authority to private (Company/ consession holder) to commercialize forest. But in fact there are local community (indigenous people) who have been living for generations in and around the forest. Community has knowledge and institutional governance of forests. The existence of state institutions has clearly hegemony to  local institutional, which had an impact on the local institutional change. In Kasepuhan Community institutional change is a response of  hegemony of the state, while in Dayak Iban Community, institutional change has strengthened local communities in the face of the State resulting in counter hegemony.