COORDINATING MINISTRY FOR ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA

PRESS RELEASE
HM.4.6/622/SET.M.EKON.3/11/2022

Involving Various Elements of Society Including Experts, Government Holds a Public Discussion on a Draft Presidential Decree for Acceleration of Agrarian Reform

Jakarta, November 4th, 2022

The government continues to encourage the acceleration of the implementation of Agrarian Reform as one of the National Priority Programs, to increase the strengthening and equity of the people's economy. The Government realized one of these efforts by drafting a Presidential Regulation related to the Acceleration of Agrarian Reform Implementation.

To support the process of drafting the Presidential Decree, the Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs, through the Deputy for Coordination of Regional Development and Spatial Planning, carried out a hybrid Public Discussion with Regional Governments, representatives of academics, civil society organizations, and experts on 1-2 November 2022 at the Office of Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs.

“Mr. President conveyed in the State Speech at the Annual Session in August 2022, in which the President emphasized that Agrarian Reform, Social Forestry, and Land Certification should be continued and accelerated so that they can provide benefits that reach fishermen, farmers, laborers, informal workers, and people with disabilities,” said Deputy for Coordination of Regional Development and Spatial Planning Wahyu Utomo.

Furthermore, Deputy Wahyu added that the Draft Presidential Decree on the Acceleration of the Agrarian Reform Implementation was prepared to address the fundamental problems that arose in the implementation of Agrarian Reform through several breakthroughs to accelerate the achievement of predetermined targets, including joint surveys, settlement of agrarian conflicts, strengthening Project Management Office (PMO) institutions, and transmigration land special assets legalization.

The Government has also drafted the Presidential Regulation since 2021 and continues to carry out internal consolidation, focus group discussions, and public discussions to receive various inputs from all stakeholders in making improvements. Public discussions were also carried out as a manifestation of the Government's commitment to meeting the legal needs of humanity and justice for the community.

“We hope that after holding this public discussion, we can strengthen the Government that this presidential regulation draft has accommodated the Government's input and consideration so that the presidential decree can be implemented more quickly,” said Deputy Wahyu.

The discussion also discussed various challenges that are still being encountered related to the implementation of the Agrarian Reform policy such as indications of buying and selling after the delivery of certificates, obstacles to writing off objects and object nominations, and inefficiencies in conflict resolution through the courts.

Apart from that, the discussion also took place constructively with input from various parties starting from the consideration of the inclusion of the Job Creation Law, the formulation regarding the Land Bank, data disclosure, and the transfer of State/Regional Property assets, settlement of agrarian conflicts between communities and PTPN and forest areas, survey membership and Land for Agrarian Reform Objects (TORA) from forest areas, budget support for accelerating Agrarian Reform and improving settlement of land tenure in forest areas, to economic empowerment for Agrarian Reform Subjects to increase business scale and productivity.

The activity was also attended by the Director General of Forestry Planning and Environmental Management of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Deputy II for Human Development at the Presidential Staff Office, Community Participation and Empowerment Expert for the Minister of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning/National Land Agency, Agrarian Law Expert of Gajah Mada University, Socio Agrarian Expert of IPB University, Forestry Expert of Gajah Mada University, Representatives of the People’s Front for Palm Oil Advocacy, and Representatives of GEMA Social Forestry. (dep6/dft/rep/map/fsr)

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