Land and Development in Indonesia: Searching for the People's Sovereignty

Indonesia was founded on the ideal of the "Sovereignty of the People", which suggests the pre-eminence of people’s rights to access, use and control land to support their livelihoods. Yet, many questions remain unresolved. How can the state ensure access to land for agriculture and housing...

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Other Authors: F. McCarthy, John (Editor), Robinson, Kathryn (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore ISEAS Publishing [2016]
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Online Access:DE-859
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Summary:Indonesia was founded on the ideal of the "Sovereignty of the People", which suggests the pre-eminence of people’s rights to access, use and control land to support their livelihoods. Yet, many questions remain unresolved. How can the state ensure access to land for agriculture and housing while also supporting land acquisition for investment in industry and infrastructure? What is to be done about indigenous rights? Do registration and titling provide solutions? Is the land reform agenda — legislated but never implemented — still relevant? How should the land questions affecting Indonesia’s disappearing forests be resolved? The contributors to this volume assess progress on these issues through case studies from across the archipelago: from large-scale land acquisitions in Papua, to asset ownership in the villages of Sulawesi and Java, to tenure conflicts associated with the oil palm and mining booms in Kalimantan, Sulawesi and Sumatra. What are the prospects for the "people’s sovereignty" in regard to land?
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Jun 2018)
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9789814762106
DOI:10.1355/9789814762106

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