This article reveals the opening of political and legal opportunities for the landless peasants of Central Java at the end of the 1990s to reclaim their lands that were confiscated during the end of the 1950s through a nationalization program to take over Dutch-controlled lands. Taking two sites of plantations that have been targeted as the peasantries’ land reclaiming campaign, this article shows the processes of the reclaiming, the responses of both plantation companies and state, and the respect of the state over rights to access to lands or property rights of the peasants as citizens. Using some legal and anthropological approaches, this article finds that the state—through its apparatuses in business units, legal enforcement agencies, government units, courts, etc—is trapped in a Stocksian Paradox that is worse than its original Latin American version because the state has a deep conflict of interest as one of the “counter-claimants” of the indigenous or peasantries’ claim to rights to property/land. The authors recommend that although a robust civil society representing the peasantries is one of important parts in rights-reclaiming campaigns, the deeper Stocksian Paradox remains the biggest stumbling block in fulfilling state’s roles as rights-givers to its citizens.

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农民对印度尼西亚中爪哇种植园公司的土地权利主张（1998-2014）

本文揭示了 1990 年代末中爪哇的无地农民通过国有化计划收回他们在 1950 年代末被没收的土地以接管荷兰控制的土地的政治和法律机会。本文以农民开垦土地为目标的两个种植园为例，展示了开垦的过程，种植公司和国家的反应，以及国家对土地使用权或财产权的尊重农民作为公民。使用一些法律和人类学方法，本文发现国家——通过其在商业单位、执法机构、政府单位、法院、等——陷入了比其最初的拉丁美洲版本更糟糕的斯托克斯悖论中，因为作为土著或农民对财产/土地权利主张的“反诉方”之一，该州存在严重的利益冲突。作者建议，尽管代表农民的强大公民社会是维权运动的重要组成部分之一，但更深层次的斯托克斯悖论仍然是履行国家作为公民权利赋予者角色的最大绊脚石。