Village Community Agricultural Law Policy In The Era Globalization

Abstract

Efforts to meet food needs through food security policies must be a central issue in building community welfare in villages. The starting point for the development of agricultural law politics must be based on a plan to build a sustainable agricultural system. This effort begins with the development of a sustainable rural community farming system to improve the quality of life. Agricultural policy regulations in Indonesia still cause many problems, including the conversion of agricultural land to non-agricultural land, the low welfare of farmers and land reform policies. To uncover the causes of these problems, this study aims firstly to discuss the legal politics of rural agriculture in Indonesia from the Old Order to the Reformation era, and secondly to provide ideas for improving the development of agricultural law policies in order to meet global challenges and rural economic development. This study uses a normative legal research method which is analyzed with a statutory approach and a historical approach. The results of the study conclude that, during the Old Order, the direction of legal politics in the agricultural sector was more emphasized on the inventory of agricultural and plantation land. During the New Order era, the direction of legal policy in the agricultural sector was divided into two patterns, namely the pattern towards food sovereignty and the semi-industrial agricultural pattern. The Reformation period showed the dominance of the influence of foreign capitalism in legislation and the idea offered to respond to global challenges was to build agricultural law policies based on village economic democracy.