Abstract
This study was conducted to find out: (1) the agrarian history as a milestone of <br />the agrarian policy in Indonesia; (2) the dynamics of agrarian policy as a driving<br />factor for the agrarian reform; (3) agrarian policy as a means of transforming the<br />agrarian reform in Indonesia. This study is a normative juridical legal research<br />with a historical approach, in addition to use conjunctural approach to examine the<br />complex, historically specific, of various agrarian policies. The study concludes that:<br />(1) Agrarian history is an important part of the agrarian policy realization, beginning<br />from Dutch colonialism along with the dominated agrarian resources and the raise<br />of peasant resistance against imperialism, this condition gave rise to the spirit of<br />national movements and the birth of Law Number 5 of 1960 on The Agrarian Basic<br />Law (hereinafter abbreviated to UUPA) as the basis for agrarian policy in Indonesia;<br />(2) Not all the agrarian policies are oriented towards the objectives of the UUPA, often<br />time they cause problems in their application, among others its irrelevant to principles<br />of justice and people's welfare, land tenure disintegration, lack of certainty over the<br />land rights, stand for the capital owners, opening up of foreign investors controlling<br />agrarian sources, the designation of forest areas on people’s lands, nationalization of<br />the plantations, repressive resolution of agrarian conflicts, and land certification which<br />legalizes inequality land tenure structures; (3) agrarian policy is an important part<br />of the process of realizing the agrarian reform, especially in the context of agrarian<br />transformation towards the formation of a 'agrarian' society structure integrated into<br />economic pillars to improve people’s welfare.
Highlights
The history of the Indonesian Nation shows that agrarian issues have not been placed as the main concerns to be resolved
Agrarian history begins from the colonial era, agrarian struggle in the era of national movements, beginning from Soekarno era to the post-independence era and to Basic Agrarian Law (UUPA) establishment, these were the path to preparing the national agrarian policies
There will emerge serious problem when the young generations do not have a complete understanding towards the history of their own predecessors, beginning from the struggle against colonialism, invaders, agrarian era, national movement, Soekarno's land reform policy to the post-reform era
Summary
The history of the Indonesian Nation shows that agrarian issues have not been placed as the main concerns to be resolved. The dynamics of agrarian policy occurred in Indonesia are closely related to the agrarian history arose during to the ruling regime. The successful context of agrarian reform policies lies in the succeeding factors, namely the availability of complete and accurate data on diagramming. In the context of preparing agrarian reform, diagramming data, more especially the agrarian policies is highly required. It needs a study-oriented investigation which concerns the exploring the agrarian history and agrarian policies in implementing the agrarian reform
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