The article discusses the exclusion and land grabbing carried out by mining companies against transmigrants in the Bahodopi mining area. Transmigrants are placed in areas controlled by PT. Inco through the mechanism of a contract of work since 1968. Overlapping land rights due to "mistaken" placement by the government resulted in conflicts between transmigrants and companies. PT. Inco tried to reclaim land controlled by transmigrants for the purpose of developing mining businesses by carrying out exclusionary practices, trying to acquire land and/or imposing conditions for farmers to give up their agricultural land. The practice of exclusion and land grabbing involves corporations and the state acting on behalf of the authority to use land facilitated by the state. This situation encourages dynamics in local communities to fight for land rights. The complexity of the problems in the nickel mining area has triggered awareness about the importance of dialogue, actions to protect land rights, the right to life, and access to opportunities as the Bahodopi area develops into an industrial area. Ethnographic data on exclusion and land grabbing practices as well as the dynamics of responses from communities are of primary concern with the assumption that these practices open room for transformative change. Local communities and transmigrants in Onepute Jaya village and Lele village still carry out agricultural activities even with limited land ownership with new commodities, maintaining and taking opportunities with business or services along with the growth of the increasingly complex Bahodopi mining area.