write a short note on Samin's challenge .
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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. This challenge soon transformed into a widespread movement of the people of the village. They protested against this by laying down themselves on their land when the Dutch surveyors began classifying public and salary land and used to shout “Kanggo” (I own it). They cut teak notwithstanding Dutch attempts to protect the forest. Moreover, they denied paying taxes, fines and to move from the rented or communal land. Some of them piled stones on the roads which they had been assigned to build.