Accelerating agrarian reform implementation in Indonesia

Project Overview 

Through project processes, communities will become better acquainted with various legal channels to choose the right strategy to secure rights to their territories, forests and lands. By promoting sub-national practices based on the recognition of the territory as a single spatial entity, the project will generate lessons that help the central government to harmonise inconsistent sectorial laws and regulations that constitute a major obstacle for the recognition of indigenous territories encompassing forest, land, coastal and maritime areas. 

The project will also build the capacity of local government agencies to process claims submitted by communities and help provide all data and maps used as references in decision-making regarding the recognition of customary forests and territory, as well as land redistribution under the Agrarian Reform Program. This project will also strengthen the capacity and consolidation of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities organisations – especially peasant organisations- ensuring KPA can be more effective in defending the interests of their members.  

Upon its completion, more than 300,000 hectares of land will be incorporated into the government conflict resolution and land distribution mechanisms, more than 200,000 hectares of LPRA will be verified by the government and 50,000 hectares of the hectares will be titled. 

In its first two years of implementation, the project has achieved important results. For instance, KPA and the Ministry of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning/National Land Administration formalised a task force for the Acceleration of Land Redistribution in Priority Locations for Agrarian Reform and Agrarian Conflict Resolution (SATGAS LPRA). Additionally, KPA submitted various priority locations of agrarian reform to the government.