ISBN:
9780896802872
Language:
English
Pages:
XX, 405 S.
,
Ill., graph. Darst.
Series Statement:
Ohio University research in international studies 126
Series Statement:
Southeast Asia series
DDC:
333.3/1598
Keywords:
Bodenreform
;
Bodenrecht
;
Landnutzung
;
Kleinbauern
;
Sozialer Konflikt
;
Indonesien
;
Land reform
;
Land tenure
;
Land use
;
Agriculture and state
;
Indonesia Rural conditions
;
Glossar enthalten
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Indonesien
;
Bodenreform
;
Sozialer Konflikt
Abstract:
Half of Indonesia's massive population still lives on farms, and for these tens of millions of people the revolutionary promise of land reform remains largely unfulfilled. The Basic Agrarian Law, enacted in the wake of the Indonesian Revolution, was supposed to provide access to land and equitable returns for peasant farmers. But fifty years later, the law's objectives of social justice have not been achieved. Land for the People provides a comprehensive look at land conflict and agrarian reform throughout Indonesia's recent history, from the roots of land conflicts in the prerevolutionary period, and the Sukarno and Suharto regimes, to the present day, in which democratization is creating new contexts for peoples' claims to the land. Drawing on studies from across Indonesia's diverse landscape, the contributors examine some of the most significant issues and events affecting land rights, including shifts in policy from the early postrevolutionary period to the New Order; the Land Administration Project that formed the core of land policy during the late New Order period; a long-running and representative dispute over a golf course in West Java that pitted numerous indigenous farmers in Kalimantan against the urban elite; Suharto's notorious "million hectare" project that resulted in loss of access to land and resources for numerous farmers; and the struggle by Bandung's urban poor to be treated equitably in the context of commercial land development. Together, these essays provide a critical resource for understanding one of Indonesia's most pressing and most influential issues.
Abstract:
"Half of Indonesia's massive population still lives on farms, and for these tens of millions of people the revolutionary promise of land reform remains largely unfulfilled. The Basic Agrarian Law, enacted in the wake of the Indonesian Revolution, was supposed to provide access to land and equitable returns for peasant farmers. But fifty years later, the law's objectives of social justice have not been achieved. Land for the People provides a comprehensive look at land conflict and agrarian reform throughout Indonesia's recent history, from the roots of land conflicts in the prerevolutionary period, and the Sukarno and Suharto regimes, to the present day, in which democratization is creating new contexts for peoples' claims to the land. Drawing on studies from across Indonesia's diverse landscape, the contributors examine some of the most significant issues and events affecting land rights, including shifts in policy from the early postrevolutionary period to the New Order; the Land Administration Project that formed the core of land policy during the late New Order period; a long-running and representative dispute over a golf course in West Java that pitted numerous indigenous farmers in Kalimantan against the urban elite; Suharto's notorious "million hectare" project that resulted in loss of access to land and resources for numerous farmers; and the struggle by Bandung's urban poor to be treated equitably in the context of commercial land development. Together, these essays provide a critical resource for understanding one of Indonesia's most pressing and most influential issues"--
Note:
Enth. 11 Beitr
,
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Enth. 11 Beitr
,
Erscheinungsjahr in Vorlageform:c 2013
,
The land, the law, and the people
,
The land, the law, and the people
,
Indonesia's land titling program (LAP) : the market solution?
,
The Cimacan golf course dispute since the New Order
,
Oil palm plantations, customary rights, and local protests : a West Sumatran case study
,
Tenure and transformation in Central Kalimantan : after the "million hectare" project
,
Land disputes and the church : sobering thoughts from Flores
,
Legal certainty for whom? : land contestation and value transformations at Gili Trawangan, Lombok
,
Dealing with the urban poor : changing law and practice of commercial land clearance in post New Order Bandung
,
The agrarian movement, civil society, and emerging political constellations
,
Agrarian resources and conflict in the twenty-first century
,
Land concentration and land reform in Indonesia : interpreting agricultural census data, 1963/2000
,
Indonesia's land titling program (LAP) : the market solution?
,
The Cimacan golf course dispute since the New Order
,
Oil palm plantations, customary rights, and local protests : a West Sumatran case study
,
Tenure and transformation in Central Kalimantan : after the "million hectare" project
,
Land disputes and the church : sobering thoughts from Flores
,
Legal certainty for whom? : land contestation and value transformations at Gili Trawangan, Lombok
,
Dealing with the urban poor : changing law and practice of commercial land clearance in post New Order Bandung
,
The agrarian movement, civil society, and emerging political constellations
,
Agrarian resources and conflict in the twenty-first century
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