Dinamika kehidupan masyarakat Dusun Poncol telah lama berkait erat dengan Arak Jowo yang telah menjadi identitas dan komoditas. Proses konstruksi identitas Arak Jowo di Dusun Poncol yang berlangsung dalam waktu lama tidak hanya melibatkan pemasak Arak Jowo sebagai produsen tetapi juga masyarakat Dusun Poncol dan masyarakat lain di sekitar Kabupaten Ngawi. masyarakat Dusun Poncol dan masyarakat lain terjadi dalam praktik konsumsi dan jual beli Arak Jowo yang diproduksi oleh pemasak Arak Jowo di Dusun Poncol. Namun, pemasak Arak Jowo sebagai bagian masyarakat Dusun Poncol ini terpaksa harus kehilangan pekerjaannya karena terbitnya Perda nomor 10 tahun 2012 Kabupaten Ngawi dan implementasinya dengan bentuk penertiban gabungan yang berlangsung pada tahun 2018. Pasca penertiban berlangsung, pemasak Arak Jowo merasa bimbang karena keahlian utama yang mereka kuasai dilarang untuk dilakukan lagi berdasarkan peraturan hukum formal yang berlaku. Pasca penertiban, pemasak Arak Jowo mengalami dilema dalam memahami identitas sosial mereka dan cara memenuhi kebutuhan ekonomi keluarga mereka. Penertiban juga meninggalkan trauma dan bagi ketakutan pemasak Arak Jowo Dusun Poncol terlebih tentang kekacauan terhadap orang luar. Kondisi liminal memaksa pemasak Arak Jowo merasakan kondisi yang serba sulit baik untuk tetap melakukan aktivitas produksi Arak Jowo maupun meninggalkan aktivitas tersebut dan memulai aktivitas baru pengganti Arak Jowo.

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The dynamics of the life of the Dusun Poncol people has long been closely related to Arak Jowo which has become an identity and a commodity. The process of constructing the identity of Arak Jowo in Dusun Poncol which took a long time did not only involve the cooks of Arak Jowo as producers but also the people of Dusun Poncol and other communities around Ngawi Regency. The people of Dusun Poncol and other communities are involved in the practice of consuming and buying and selling Arak Jowo produced by Arak Jowo cooks in Dusun Poncol. However, the cooks of Arak Jowo, as part of the Dusun Poncol community, were forced to lose their jobs due to the issuance of Regional Regulation number 10 of 2012 of Ngawi Regency and its implementation in a combined form of control which took place in 2018. After the control took place, the cooks of Arak Jowo felt confused because the main expertise they mastery is prohibited from being carried out again based on the applicable formal legal regulations. After the control, the cooks of Arak Jowo experienced a dilemma in understanding their social identity and how to meet their family's economic needs. The control also left trauma and fear for the cooks of Arak Jowo Dusun Poncol especially about chaos towards outsiders. This liminal condition forced the cooks of Arak Jowo to experience difficult conditions both to continue to carry out Arak Jowo production activities and to leave these activities and start new activities to replace Arak Jowo.