Articulation of Native Knowledge About the Burning in Field Tradition on Ngaju Women Peasants, Central Borneo, Indonesia Perspective

Author(s)	Dr. Evi Nurleni, Prof. Heru Nugroho, Dr. Arie Sudjito
Country	Indonesia
Abstract	There is a struggle between global and local knowledge in understanding the tradition of burning in fields, where the global stigmatizes it as a cause of forest fires that is different from the women cultivator's experience. Generally, burning in fields for the Ngaju people in Central Borneo has historically been safe and environmentally friendly. In fact, forest fires are caused by many factors, such as nature or technocratic mobilization. Stigmatization that successfully concealed the burning behaviour carried out by others. In the concept of knowledge-based violence, the regulations and technocracy controlled by state groups (technocrats-intellectuals) often act unfairly and become hegemony. Hotspot data-based technology causes the tradition of burning politicized and victim blaming. The implementation of regulations causes the field to become a criminal locus. Knowledge based-violence violence causes women peasants to become victims and the cultural knowledge becomes silenced. On Ngaju Women peasants, the smoke from the fields articulate as a voice of existence and resistance.
Keywords	Burning in the Fields, Women Peasants, Knowledge Based-violence, Ngaju People, Existence, Resistance.
Field	Sociology
Published In	Volume 8, Issue 4, July-August 2026
Published On	2026-07-14
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2026.v08i04.83512

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