NGOs plan conflict resolution body

NGOs plan conflict resolution body

JAKARTA: The Consortium for Agrarian Reform called for the
government on Monday to set up an agrarian conflict resolution
agency.

The agency would be tasked with seeking solutions to the
numerous conflicts over land ownership across the country that
stemmed from the legal uncertainty and power abuses of the past.

Dianto Bachriadi, chairman of the consortium's executive
body, proposed that the agency, when it eventually comes into
being, should adopt a "transitional justice" approach -- which
was necessary in the time of transition from the New Order to the
reform era.

"This agency is necessary for systematic and comprehensive
solutions to the numerous land disputes," Dianto said.

The consortium made the statement in conjunction with last
week's People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) decree on land reform
and natural-resource management requiring a review of all related
subordinate laws. --JP