Agrarian Reform in Indonesia: Analyze Concepts and Their Implementation from a Governance Perspective

H Kartodiharjo,E Cahyono

doi:10.7226/jtfm.27.te.1

Abstract

Analysis of the relationship between inequality, agrarian reform and corruption as well as public administration reform has not been discussed, both in terms of the formation and implementation of agrarian reform in Indonesia. This article aims to explore the concept and implementation of agrarian reform, as well as the influence of governance conditions in the management of natural resources in the implementation of agrarian reform. With the characteristics of agrarian issues in Indonesia, land administration and those related to the implementation of redistribution of benefits from the use of natural resources need to be strengthened with appropriate concepts or theories, including public information disclosure as a fulfillment of substantive and deliberative implementation of democracy. In addition, by referring to experiences in other countries, agrarian reform needs to be carried out by reducing the level of clientelism and implemented through a number of corruption prevention and prosecution programs, especially in the fields of land and other natural resources.

Highlights

The definition of "agrarian" in Indonesia is often narrowed down to "agricultural land", whereas what is covered by agrarian includes natural resources as a whole (Wiradi, 2005)
The findings of Arial et al (2011) show that there is a very strong correlation between the level of corruption in the land sector and the corruption of the public sector as a whole in a country. These results suggest that countries facing widespread public sector corruption suffer from corruption in the land sector
This paper aims to explore the concept and implementation of agrarian reform in Indonesia as well as the influence of governance conditions in natural resource management in the implementation of agrarian reform

Summary

Introduction

The definition of "agrarian" in Indonesia is often narrowed down to "agricultural land", whereas what is covered by agrarian includes natural resources as a whole (Wiradi, 2005). Based on this long experience, it was realized that "land reform" needed to be accompanied by supporting programs such as credit, provision of production facilities, education and others, and was later called "agrarian reform" (agrarian reform). In this case, the term "reforma" needs to be distinguished from the term "management", because the term "reforma" emphasizes more on the form of operations, "ad hoc" and fast (Wiradi, 2005). Ideally agrarian reform is not a program or merely a "normal" development policy, but it is a "foundation" or the supporting base of national development policies

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