Abstract
ABSTRACTMost contemporary land grab research focuses on the food and biofuel industries. In resource-rich countries such as Indonesia, however, the prevalent form of land transfers is investment in and production of non-renewable resources. This case study of ExxonMobil Corporation in the Bojonegoro District of East Java province, Indonesia – the area known as the “Cepu Block” – starts with the government’s provision in 2001 of a large concession for energy production. It highlights a combination of legal pressures, market transactions and political manipulation of civil society protests that resulted in the exclusion of local people from decision-making and dispossession of their land and livelihoods.
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