dc.description.abstracteng | Land constitutes productive space, as well as a commodity. For this reason, land has
become a contestation arena for various interested actors of all scales. The strategists of
knowledge construct a wide variety of knowledge frameworks relating to land access
claims. This research identifies particular forms of knowledge on land access and
examines how knowledge of land access claims is contested. This research will contribute
to the debates on knowledge of land access, which have been shaped by historical
contexts, political and economic interests, as well as access relations; while land has been
contested in the name of livelihoods, economic growth, and power.
This research used the multi-sited ethnography approach by following the actors, events,
policies and stories within the dimensions of space and time. This research was
conducted in the former Asialog forestry concession; specifically, in two places: Bungku
Village in Batanghari District and Tanjung Lebar Village in Muaro Jambi District. I have
used the term community to specify geographical and population units in my research
location. The communities covered were Bungku Indah, Johor Baru, SAD 113, Ujung
Aspal, Rantau Rasau, Kunangan Jaya 1, Kunangan Jaya 2, Tanjung Lebar, Portal,
Pangkalan Ranjau, Pinang Merah, Alam Sakti, Tanjung Mandiri, Sei Jerat and Ulu
Badak. In other words, I researched and analyzed all communities existing in southern
Jambi to ensure a holistic, whole and complete coverage of the formation process of the
Bungku and Tanjung Lebar villages. Throughout 2012-2016, I interviewed a total of 187
community scale actors. I also carried out repeated structured interviews of 170
academics and scientists, government bureaucrats, and representatives of NGOs/mass
organizations.
In general, I conclude that knowledge constructions relating to land access claims can be
classified into four categories: development knowledge, open access regime knowledge,
adat land knowledge, and agrarian reform knowledge. Knowledge of access claims to
land is meant to result in the establishment of territories of various scales. Development
knowledge from the state will result in the form of state territorialization of various kinds,
such as concession territories and conservation/restoration territories. Whereas other
knowledge can be utilized to form local territories that are constructed by communities
accessing land. This formation of territories is dynamic, and determined by knowledge
and access relation dynamics.
Finally, the answer to the question of who will come out as the most powerful party in
defending territorial claims, whether for forest territorialization or village
territorialization, is very dependent on the knowledge being employed by the access
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