ABSTRAKThis article is part of my master's thesis which titled identity politics and capitalism in Illegal Logging along Indonesia - MAlaysia Border. In this article, i try to explain how the state, through its coercive and repressive apparatus, attempted to control its citizens or to create "forced-compliance" citizens against its claim of legitimacy within the phenomena of the politics of natural resource management, particulary in the incidence of illegal logging along the Indonesia-Malaysia border. To serve this purpose, a field research with a qualitative approach was carried out in kabupaten of Kapuas Hulu particulary in kecamatan Badau wich is next to Malaysian border.
The state believes that with its coercive power and repressive apparatus it has been successful in forcing its citizens to comply with forest management regulations. It is true when the compliance is analyzed under the assumption that people are active and creative; the state existance, tith its coercive and repressive apparatus, will be interupted, negitiated and redefined both by its people and business enterprises to strengthen their bargaining positions within the power relation, that is state vis a vis people or business enterprises.
In the phenomena of illegal logging any change in the coerciva apparatus and repressive state by its agencies or institutions will always be swindled by any segment of the society dealing with them. therefore, any situation and policy taken by the state to stop the practice of illegal logging always be followed by new strategies in doing the unlawfully practice. One of the causes which allows the discovery of new tactics is that the deregulation of forest management has created confusions among the actors which in turn has allowed the execution of new strategies in illegal logging.
