Bang! DPR Plenary Session Passes Agrarian Reform Regulation Bill into Law
Bang! The House of Representatives (DPR) Plenary Session has passed the Agrarian Reform Regulation Bill into Law.
Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia - The Bill on Agrarian Reform Regulation was officially passed into law during the Plenary Session of the House of Representatives at the Nusantara Building, Parliament Complex, Senayan, Jakarta, on Tuesday (22/9/2026). The session was presided over by the Deputy Speaker of the DPR, Sufmi Dasco Ahmad.
“Now is the time; we will ask all session participants again whether the Agrarian Reform Regulation Bill can be approved to be enacted into Law?” said Dasco.
“Agreed,” replied the session participants.
Dasco then struck the gavel to signal the ratification of the Agrange Reform Regulation Bill into law. He further asked whether the Bill on Agrarian Reform Regulation could be approved to become law, to which the participants again replied, “agreed.”
Previously, there were 596 items in the list of problems (DIM) discussed together with the Working Committee on the Agrarian Reform Regulation Bill. The Bill on Agrarian Reform Regulation contains several strategic substances, including the regulation of agrarian reform implementation through state control to guarantee the fulfilment, restoration, and recognition of people’s rights to land and other agrarian resources. Land use is also directed to prioritise agrarian reform subjects.
The Bill also regulates agrarian reform planning through a roadmap containing policy directions, targets, stages, priorities, implementation strategies, and performance indicators. Additionally, it regulates priority agrarian reform locations (LPRA), including the criteria and mechanisms for their determination based on issues such as inequality in land control and ownership, agrarian conflicts, abandoned land, poverty, absentee land, and holdings that exceed the maximum limit.
From the perspective of beneficiaries, the Bill regulates the objects and subjects of agrarian reform, involving land originating from both conflict and non-conflict resolutions. Prioritised groups include farmers, cultivators, farm labourers, fishermen, indigenous peoples, women, and the poor.
Strengthening institutions is also a vital part of the Bill through the formation of an agrarian reform implementing agency that operates under and is responsible to the President. This agency will have authority in planning, implementation, supervision, and the resolution of agrarian conflicts. Furthermore, a supervisory board will be established to ensure transparency, participation, accountability, and the effectiveness of agrarian reform implementation.
In conflict resolution, the Bill regulates an effective, transparent, and just mechanism that prioritises deliberation, the restoration of social relations, legal certainty, and the restoration of community rights. The restoration of land rights and land redistribution are also strengthened as instruments for asset restructuring, including the return of land to entitled parties or the provision of substitute land if return is not possible.
The Bill also regulates the empowerment of agrarian reform subjects by integrating asset restructuring with access restructuring, economic empowerment, regional development, and fair and sustainable partnerships.
Regarding protection, the Bill strengthens law enforcement and the prevention of new agrarian conflicts, including protection for agrarian reform subjects, community advocates, reporters, witnesses, and parties defending land rights. These provisions also include the application of the principle of free, prior, and informed consent.
Furthermore, land control and ownership will be regulated, controlled, and limited to prevent land concentration and re-concentration, while simultaneously guaranteeing the equitable distribution of land control and ownership. Meaningful community participation is also strengthened in agrarian conflict resolution, land rights restoration, land redistribution, and the empowerment of agrarian reform subjects.
The Bill also strengthens the system of data, reporting, and accountability for agrarian reform implementation by integrating conflict resolution results and agrarian reform implementation into a single data system. Reports on agrarian reform implementation will subsequently be submitted to the President and the DPR.
Finally, the Bill regulates funding, criminal provisions, and transitional provisions to ensure the sustainability, compliance, and effectiveness of agrarian reform implementation, including the integration of ongoing agrarian reform processes into the system based on this new law.