Based on the allocation of forest use for
production in 2010, 97.5% or about 34.3 million
ha are managed by private companies. The
remaining 2%, or about 678,414 ha, are managed
by the community (Resosudarmo et al., 2012).
The MP3EI is supposed to be the blueprint for
the Indonesian economy from 2011 to 2025, but
is also regarded as a systemic process of largescale land grabbing with the state as a principal
facilitator.
Of the concession areas for large plantations
throughout Indonesia, palm oil plantations
accounted for 79% as of 2008 or about 4.5 million
ha. Of this total area for palm plantations, 61%
are owned by large estates with the rest held by
farmer-households (Booth, et, al., 2012).
This policy is described as one way of accelerating
Indonesia’s economic growth. But for indigenous
peoples, MP3EI is an acceleration of the systematic
exclusion process that has long hounded them.
This unequal distribution is one cause of lingering
poverty in Indonesia. Clearly, such government
policies that provide control of a large portion
of resources by a select few is a major cause
of agrarian conflicts today and the continued
marginalization of indigenous peoples.
Mining is another sector that has trampled on
indigenous peoples’ rights. Since 2000, mining
activities in Indonesia have increased rapidly,
with the contribution of coal and minerals to total
government revenue doubling from 3% in 2000
to 6% in 2009 (Resosudarmo, 2012).
In 2007, Indonesia became the world’s largest
producer and exporter of coal. The sector quickly
filled government coffers but unfortunately at
the expense of increasing conflict over land
(US Commercial services, 2007 as cited in
Resosudarmo 2012.
The pace of growth of large-scale agricultural
production will likely accelerate even more with
the continued implementation of the Master
Plan for the Acceleration and Expansion of the
Indonesian Economy (MP3EI), issued in 2011 by
the Coordinating Minister of the Economy.
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Key actors who promote/
impede IPs’ land rights
There are many government agencies involved in
land policy in Indonesia.
Among these is the Ministry of Forestry, which,
however, has declared that it would not move
on indigenous people’s concerns if there is no
response or demand from the region or province.
The Ministry also requires local regulations or
decrees from the Governor or Regents on the
status of indigenous territories and indigenous
people’s including the official map delineating
the coverage of so-called indigenous territories.
Then there is the Ministry of the Interior, which
if it acts positively on concerns of indigenous
peoples, can actually assign customary territory.
The Ministry of Environment initiated the
implementation of the Indigenous and Tribal
Peoples’ strengthening through: an inventory of
Indigenous and Tribal Peoples, determination of
indigenous and tribal peoples and environmental
wisdom owned, and then strengthening of
indigenous and tribal peoples’ capacity through
natural resource-based creative businesses.
Asian NGO Coalition for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ANGOC)
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