Agrarian Development in Indonesia: Post-Reformation Legal and Sociological Perspectives

Abstract

The basic principles of Indonesia's agrarian order are influenced by customary law and are one of the most important basic structures of life in the nation and state. National agrarian development from the Old Order to the New Order experienced a complicated level of problems. This study wants to know and trace national agrarian developments from the perspective of post-reform law and sociology in Indonesia. This research is a socio-legal research that is descriptive and analytical. This research shows that in the legal perspective of the agrarian sector after the reform there are still many inequalities between one regulation and another, the protection of rights in these regulations itself is bulldozed by various regulations, policies, and programs created by the government. Meanwhile, from the sociological perspective, agrarian conflicts are still rife after this reform. Conflicts caused by policies or decisions of public officials (central and regional), involve many victims and cause widespread impacts, which include social, economic, and political dimensions.