describe samin's challenge.
ch 4
history class 9
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Surontiko Samin was the leader of Saminism Movement. He lived in a village called Randublatung which was a teak forest village. When the Dutch surveyors began classifying public and salary land he challenged the Dutch saying that the government had not produced the water, wind, earth and wood, so it could not show its possession over it.
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Around 1890 Surontiko Samin of Randublatung village a teak forest village began questioning state ownership of the forest. He argued that the state had not created the wind water earth and wood so it could not own it. Soon a widespread movement developed. Amongst those who helped organise it were Samin’s sons-in-law. By 1907 3 000 families were following his ideas. Some of the Saminists protested by lying down on their land when the Dutch came to survey it while others refused to pay taxes or fines or perform labour.