In this chapter, I examined land and forest management in the Pa Bong community in order to understand the relationship and the gap between the connection of social movements and my research community; in other words, between the policy advocacy and the practices on the ground. The implementation of community forest management in this community also manifests in the encounter between the key concepts of natural resource management and rural development; the concepts of common property and private property; and the concepts of the homogeneity and heterogeneity of a community. In the context that the community is encountering globalization, the community is affected by contradictory concepts. On the one hand, private property regime increasingly affects land use and management in the community due to the influence of neo-liberalism. On the other hand, communitybased management is initiated and encouraged by social movements. Despite these contradictions, these dichotomous concepts co-exist and are manipulated differently by different community members.