This presentation explores the emergence of local power in Yogyakarta. There has been considerable continuity and change in this historic city especially since decentralisation was adopted in 2001 (Richter, 2008; Sulistiyanto, 2009; Park, 2012; Kadir, 2012; Tickamyer and Kusujiarti, 2012). Politically, local people were presented with many political parties to vote in both national and local elections, but only two of them, the National Mandate Party (PAN) and the Indonesian Democratic Party-Struggle (PDIP) shared most of the votes. Economically, local people had been through many crises caused by domestic and external factors such as the 1998 economic meltdown and the 2008 worldwide economic crisis. Socially, local people also adapted to changes happened in their surroundings where contestations between local, national and global social, religious and cultural actors were intense and deepened. This presentation aims to do a few things: firstly, mapping out political affiliations and social and religious activism of local people in Yogyakarta; secondly, finding out the changing of local economic configurations in Yogyakarta with attention the rise of new business actors; and thirdly, looking at the relationship among local social and religious organisations which are existed in this city.