From Local Food Wisdom to Local Food Movement in Kampong Cireundeu, Cimahi City, West Java Rakhmat Hidayat, Eko Siswono & M.Hasymi Yanuardi Faculty of Social Sciences - State University of Jakarta Abstract This paper describes the transformation of the Kampong Cireundeu which is a village of indigenous people who have local food wisdom of the local food movement. The Cireundeu indigenous community is one of the communities of Sunda Wiwitan, a group of communities spreading in several regions of West Java. The Cireundeu indigenous community have been consuming cassava since 1918. This tradition has been inherited from one generation to generation. The consumption of cassava is a legacy of their ancestors that is still maintained today. This is the socio-cultural power of the indigenous people of Kampong Cireundeu. They have a philosophical basis for consuming cassava as their main food. In fact, local food wisdom has transformed into a food-based local social movement that carries a comparative discourse against global phenomena. More specifically, this paper discusses the process and dynamics of transformation towards the local food movement and further become a food justice in terms of critique to the modernization and global capitalism. Keywords: wisdom, sunda wiwitan, food, movement, cassava, justice 1 INTRODUCTION The Sunda Wiwitan community in Kampong Cireundeu, Cimahi City, is an example of indigenous communities who survive the complex changes of social life. The word “Wiwitan” literally means the origin, while Sunda Wiwitan means an early Sundanese (Indrawardana, 2014). Sunda Wiwitan has been considered by Indonesian anthropologists as one of the concepts of the religious system and identity of the Sundanese people, especially the Baduy or Kanekes. The establishment of the Sunda Wiwitan community now called as the indigenous community of the way of Karuhun Urang (our ancestor) or Perkumpulan Aliran Cara Karuhun Urang (PACKU) is inseparable from the Sunda Wiwitan community leaders, namely Kyai Madrais or Pangeran Sadewa Alibassa Kusuma, Wirat Ningrat (see Hidayat, 2017; Hidayat and Adlin, 2017). The uniqueness of Kampong Cireundeu is that the villagers still consume cassava as a main food everyday. Historically, Kiai Madrais, the founding father of Sunda Wiwitan in West Java was the one who