This study focuses on the incident in which the district forestry service in cooperation with local police, military officers and a tree plantation company, PT Musi Hutan Persada (PT MHP), forcibly evicted 'illegal' encroachers from its concession area (Cawang area) in South Sumatra, Indonesia. This study aims to depict the process of encroachment by explaining the underlying causes of the large-scale illegal occupation in a conservation block created by the tree plantation company, and then

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... cuss the social responsibilities that governmental organizations and the company should engage in for the life reconstruction of those who were evicted. The main data used in this study were narrative data collected through the interviews with encroachers, staff members of the related governmental organizations such as the district forestry service, the natural resource conservation agency in South Sumatra, and a local environmental NGO. These interviews were conducted intermittently in