83 Monitoring Report of Agrarian Conflicts for 2017-20181 By Konsorsium Pembaruan Agraria (KPA) BACKGROUND A grarian reform is one of the priority programs of the Joko Widodo presidency in order to reduce the land tenure gaps and bring about more just economic development. Approximately nine million hectares are targeted for distribution and legalization of ownership. Agrarian reform is being implemented today because the people have long demanded it, because the Indonesian constitution mandates it, and because the government now vows to pursue it. Assessing the track record of the Jokowi administration in addressing agrarian problems is not easy. The significant number of agrarian conflicts, land expropriations, and violent evictions perpetrated by the government that promised agrarian reform undermines the hope and belief that progress will be achieved. The work of resolving agrarian structural inequality remains to be done. This report is based on the monitoring activity conducted on agrarian conflicts which occurred in Indonesia during the period January 2017 to August 2018. 1 This is an abridged version of the paper “Land Conflict Monitoring Report of Agrarian Conflicts in Indonesia (2017-2018)” prepared by the Konsorsium Pembaruan Agraria (KPA) for the project “Defending Land Rights and Human Rights Defenders.” For more details, contact kpa@kpa.or.id Citation: Konsorsium Pembaruan Agraria (KPA). (2019). Indonesia Monitoring Report of Agrarian Conflicts for Year 2017-2018. In ANGOC (Ed.) In defense of land rights: A monitoring report on land conflicts in six Asian countries (pp. 83-95). Quezon City: ANGOC. Indonesia Monitoring Report of Agrarian Conflicts for 2017-2018 Indonesia