As a Result of Legal Transfer of Function of Sustainable Food Agricultural Land to Non-Agriculture

Abstract

In a country like Indonesia, which is an agricultural country, which in fact is agricultural land, it shows that agricultural land is very crucial for national food security, but as time goes by, agricultural land is decreasing day by day due to the conversion of agricultural land to non-agriculture and also an increase in population. As for several factors that cause land conversion, among others, namely: Government Program factors, economic factors and social factors. In order to protect the rate of conversion of sustainable agricultural land, the Government issued Law Number 41 of 2009 concerning Protection of Sustainable Agricultural Land which was amended by Law no. 6 of 2023 concerning Stipulation of Government Regulation in Lieu of Law Number 2 of 2022 concerning Job Creation to Become Law. This Law regulates legal consequences, namely criminal sanctions and civil sanctions if the conversion of agricultural land is sustainable which is not in accordance with laws and regulations as stated in Article 36 paragraph (1), Article 72, Article 73 paragraph (1 ), 74 paragraph (1) and paragraph (2). With the existence of sanctions in the Protection of Sustainable Food Agricultural Land Law, the government hopes to suppress the rate of land conversion based on the principles of independence, security and national food sovereignty.