Wisdom required<\/p>\n
The violence which erupted last week in connection with a land
\ndispute at Jenggawah, East Java, is truly regrettable. The
\ndestruction of state property and attack on officers, for
\nwhatever reason, only show that law and order are not as they
\nshould be and that people are inclined to be impatient, which
\ncauses them to easily take the law into their own hands.<\/p>\n
Perhaps it is true that, as the State Minister of Agrarian
\nAffairs\/Chairman of the National Land Agency Soni Harsono claims,
\nlegal evidence establishes that the 2,800 hectares of land that
\nis being disputed belongs to the state and is under the control
\nof (the state-owned agricultural estate corporation) PTP-XXVII.
\nFor that reason the occupants have no right to claim the land as
\ntheirs.<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, the fact that a number of generations of those
\npeople have lived there and tilled those lands for decades should
\nalso be considered in the efforts to come to a settlement. Nobody
\nwants to be chased off his land, and certainly not farmers who
\ntill the land, which is their only source of sustenance.<\/p>\n
An interesting solution has meanwhile been suggested by Gadjah
\nMada University sociologist Loekman Soetrisno, who proposed
\nadopting the PIR (smallholders estate) pattern in this case. The
\noccupants are given the HGU (commercial operation) rights, so
\nthat the land cannot be sold. The PTP provides guidance to the
\noccupants to cultivate crops. In this way the occupants will not
\nlose their land while PTP's tobacco production will not be
\nhampered.<\/p>\n
The old approach of looking for suspected masterminds or
\nscapegoats seems no longer appropriate.<\/p>\n
-- Bisnis Indonesia, Jakarta<\/p>", "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/wisdom-required-1447899208", "image": "" }, "sponsor": "Okusi Associates", "sponsor_url": "https:\/\/okusiassociates.com" }