Who was Samin and why did he protest against the Dutch?

(a) Samin was native of Randublatung village, a teak forest village in Java.
(b) Around 1890, he 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.