Noer Fauzi
Introduction
I am reporting my summer activities here not as a neutral and detached observer, but as an engaged actor in the process of creating, developing and enforcing the rural social movements that will be discussed in this PRESENTATION. The brief report will concentrate on some workshops held by KARSA, a Jogjakarta-based NGO that I co-founded in 2002 that works to support rural and agrarian reform initiatives in various areas in Indonesia. KARSA has also started a formal 5-year cooperation with the Institute of International Studies at UC Berkeley through Green Governance Program. Under this program KARSA is responsible for selecting and sending visiting scholars to Berkeley, managing research and workshops/trainings, and delivering some research-based papers and other related documents. This project is in concert with KARSA’s overall mission to support learning circles at various levels (local, regional and national), and to develop information networks between scholar-activists and concerned scholars on rural and agrarian reform. Through this program, KARSA has organized workshops on forestry land reform in which participants compare cases of peasant’s initiatives to push forestry land reform, mainly through land occupation tactics.
