National Project Land Acquisition Controversy: New Yogyakarta International Airport (NYIA)

Abstract

Controversy over the construction of the New Yogyakarta International Airport (NYIA) has occurred since the airport development plan was declared. Because of the overcapacity of passenger and cargo flight activities at Yogyakarta's Adi Sucipto Airport, the government thinks it necessary to build an international standard airport. However, the community and Wahana Tri-Tunggal rejects it because of the NYIA development project, which was projected to take up 637 hectares of land and was feared, would "evict" around 11,000 people. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the land acquisition controversy in the NYIA development plan. The results show that, firstly, there is no consistency with the Regional Regulation of Kulon Progo Regency Number 1 of 2012 relating to Regional Spatial Plans with the NYIA Policy, where Temon District according to Article 7 paragraph 2 is an urban system service center that mainly focuses on agriculture, plantations, and agropolitan and Temon urban area. Tsunami Evacuation which means a protected land area was built by NIYA. Second, the inconsistency of the Minister of Environment Number 5 of 2012 with the NYIA Policy where the development EIA was made after the issuance of the Permit, but land acquisition had occurred before. Third, the deviation from the land productivity-based slogan "Bela Beli Kulon Progo" causes freedom for modern shops to compete with traditional markets. The conclusion is the government, which originally showed its alignment with the agricultural sector through several policies, actually violated existing policies through the NYIA development project and it caused controversy.