Peronika

The village community’s democratic maturity is put to the test during the election of a new village head.

A number of journalists trace land‐conflict sites in West Cilacap. Through the figure of a farmer champion, Petrus Sugeng, they visit and dig into data from other peasant fighters whose ancestral land was seized by the State decades ago. It emerges that the land-seizure events were part of a series of historical suppressions of rebellions in which farmers were victims even to this day.