Land and Development in Indonesia: Searching for the People's Sovereignty

Indonesia Was Founded On The Ideal Of The 'sovereignty Of The People', Which Suggests The Pre-eminence Of People's Rights To Access, Use And Control Land To Support Their Livelihoods. Yet, Many Questions Remain Unresolved. How Can The State Ensure Access_to Land For Agriculture And Housing While Also Supporting Land Acquisition For Investment In Industry And Infrastructure? What Is To Be Done About Indigenous Rights? Do Registration And Titling Provide Solutions? Is The Land Reform Agenda - Legislated But Never Implemented - Still Relevant? How Should The Land Questions Affecting Indonesia's Disappearing Forests Be Resolved?the Contributors To This Volume Assess Progress On These Issues Through Case Studies From Across The Archipelago: From Large-scale Land Acquisitions In Papua, To Asset Ownership In The Villages Of Sulawesi And Java, To Tenure Conflicts Associated With The Oil Palm And Mining Booms In Kalimantan, Sulawesi And Sumatra. What Are The Prospects For The 'people's Sovereignty' In Regard To Land? Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments / Mccarthy, John F. / Robinson, Kathryn -- Glossary -- 1. Land, Economic Development, Social Justice And Environmental Management In Indonesia: The Search For The People's Sovereignty / Mccarthy, John F. / Robinson, Kathryn -- Part 1. Land Use And Land Law: The Big Picture -- 2. The Plantation And The Mine: Agrarian Transformation And The Remaking Of Land And Smallholders In Indonesia / Peluso, Nancy Lee -- 3. Indonesian Land Law: Integration At Last? And For Whom? / Bedner, Adriaan -- Part 2. Environmental And Customary Framing Of Land Tenure -- 4. Emerging Options For The Recognition And Protection Of Indigenous Community Rights In Indonesia / Fay, Chip / Denduangrudee, Ho-ming So -- 5. Redd, Land Management And The Politics Of Forest And Land Tenure Reform With Special Reference To The Case Of Central Kalimantan Province / Afiff, Suraya A. -- 6. Mining, Land And Community Rights In Indonesia / Robinson, Kathryn -- Part 3. Urban And Infrastructure Development -- 7. Eminent Domain And Infrastructure Under The Yudhoyono And Widodo Administrations / Davidson, Jamie S. -- 8. Housing Low- And Middle-income Households: Land Development And Policy Practice In Two Indonesian Cities / Hudalah, Delik / Rahmat, Yunie Nurhayati / Firman, Tommy -- 9. Land And Housing Security For The Urban Poor / Guinness, Patrick -- Part 4. Agriculture, Land Tenure And Livelihoods -- 10. After 200 Years, Why Is Indonesia's Cadastral System Still Incomplete? / Eng, Pierre Van Der -- 11. Agrarian Transformations And Land Reform In Indonesia / Neilson, Jeff -- 12. Land Tenure And Agrarian Structure In Regions Of Small-scale Food Production / Ambarwati, Aprilia / Harahap, Ricky Ardian / Sadoko, Isono / White, Ben -- Part 5. Large-scale Land Acquisitions And Smallholder Development -- 13. Industrial Plantations And Community Rights: Conflicts And Solutions / Anderson, Afrizal / Anderson, Patrick -- 14. How Can The People's Sovereignty Be Achieved In The Oil Palm Sector? Is The Plantation Model Shifting In Favour Of Smallholders? / Potter, Lesley -- 15. Beyond Special Autonomy And Customary Land Rights Recognition: Examining Land Negotiations And The Production Of Vulnerabilities In Papua / Savitri, Laksmi Adriani / Price, Susanna -- Index Edited By John F. Maccarthy, Kathryn Robinson. Title From Publisher's Bibliographic System (viewed On 11 Aug 2017). Includes Bibliographical References And Index. In English.