Author(s): Rasyid Ridha, Ahmadin
This article discusses a social protest of women farmers in North Polongbangkeng, Talakar Regency, and South Sulawesi Province. This action was carried out in order to demand the return of rights to their land which had been controlled by a company in this area. Another interesting thing about this phenomenon of social protest is that the root of the problem starts from the practice of the era of empire that was latent in conflict. The king's power, which has Karaeng title which is not limited to certain lands in its time, causes the people to feel shackled with their rights and freedoms in cultivating agricultural land. The combination of the trauma of the past with the current condition of land ownership by a company became the main factor in the emergence of social protests. Thus, there are three interesting things examined from this paper, namely: what is the situation that causes women farmers to choose to protest, what forms of actions are taken, and how they manage the course of the protest.