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This paper aims to investigate the problem of urban development and the local people initiative to support and evaluate the development in Yogyakarta, Indonesia in the last ten years in which there is growing number of economic developments. Environment movement is based on community as grassroots collective movement by employing social capital and collaborative works. By employing field works and series of interview, the findings of this study are (1) the existence of local-social capital can be mobilized to consolidate many resources and local creativities within the area—lead to the form of Kampung Hijau Gambiran (Green Village of Gambiran) in preserving environment security; (2) the role of this community is that it is able to sustain the ecological program in several years and able to empower people and protect local interest; and (3) by adopting stakeholder collaborative governance point of view, this Kampung Hijau succeed in building stakeholder partnership with different institution such as local NGO, city government, private sector, and individual in transforming local initiative, participation, and resources to protect environment.