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Book Review: Land for the People: The State and Agrarian Conflict in Indonesia by Anton Lucas and Carol Warren (Eds)
International Journal of Rural Management, Vol.10(2), pp.199-202
10/2014
Abstract
At the time of its passage, Indonesia’s 1960 Basic Agrarian Law (BAL) was a pioneering legislative achievement in support of common and customary (adat) land ownership. The law summoned sweeping pronouncements of the availability of land to the Indonesian people, such as: ‘Every Indonesia citizen, wither men or women has equal opportunity to obtain a certain right on land to acquire its benefits and yields thereof for himself/herself as well as his/her family.’ The law also allowed for the revocation of said rights, in instances compelled by the ‘public interest’. This duality, seemingly reasonable in certain respects, nevertheless has created a quite shaky foundation for managing land rights. While the image of the rugged individual farmer still resonates in Indonesia, the modern world has encroached on the agrarian ideals of the past; this law, glowing with good intentions, sets agrarian ideals on a collision course with authoritarian approaches that principally served elite interests and outcomes.
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- Title
- Book Review: Land for the People: The State and Agrarian Conflict in Indonesia by Anton Lucas and Carol Warren (Eds)
- Publication Details
- International Journal of Rural Management, Vol.10(2), pp.199-202
- Resource Type
- Review
- Copyright
- © 2014 Institute of Rural Management.
- Identifiers
- 99380175894706600
- Academic Unit
- Business Administration; Lewis Bear Jr. College of Business
- Language
- English