Social Movement of Mandar People as a Struggle in Processof Forming West Sulawesi Province

This paper examines the dynamics of ethnicity in South Sulawesi. Mandar is a tribe (ethnic) that lives in the area. This region consists of three regencies (before expansion) which challenged from Mandar kingdoms, ethnic try again confirmed its glory by extending political rights to form an autonomous region through the establishment of a new province in South Sulawesi. This paper focuses on problem, how is the struggle order of forming new province in the former Mandar section and why does formation movement appear in the former Mandar section. By using descriptive qualitative approach which determines informant chosen focus on what is suggested by Patton (1994) where determining informant by using purposive way. The conceptual framework used from Fakih (2000); Nordliger (1994); Suzane Keller (1984); and Ryass Rasyid (2000).the finding of the research describes that struggle movement of forming new province in the former Mandar section is a form of social movement to the positive phenomenon as a constructive means to social struggle where this movement is coordinated by an institution as a historical flame product refers to a number of activities to ease the movement pioneered by intellectual and traditional elite