“Revolusi cokelat”: Social Formation, Agrarian Structure, and Forest Margins in Upland Sulawesi, Indonesia

Abstract

Since agrarian structure refers both the composition of agrarian resources and the social relationship regarding distribution of access to such resources, it clearly assumes the articulation of a social formation, which is “a multiplex entity in which several modes of production co-exist, one of which, however, is dominant” (Worsley 1988). Referring to the elements of the mode of production, namely forces and relations of production (Worsley 1988; Taylor 1989), agrarian resources are connected with the forces of production, particularly the means of production, and social relationship is connected with the relations of production. Hypothetically, then, it can be said that any change in the structure of social formation implies a change in agrarian structure.

This article is one of the reports under “Project A2: Social Organization and Processes of Ecological Stabilization and Destabilization” of Stability of Tropical Rainforest Margin (STORMA) Research Program, a collaboration between Georg-August University of Goettingen (Germany), University of Kassel (Germany), Bogor Agricultural University (Indonesia) and University of Tadulako (Indonesia).