Land-related problems are a major source of chronic poverty and instability in the Indonesian countryside. The challenges include widespread landlessness, inefficient land markets, poorly implemented land registration systems, ill-defined land rights and resulting social conflict, and poor natural resource management.
Another major challenge for Indonesia is to draft laws that protect the traditional rights of indigenous people while facilitating the inevitable process of modernization. Field research is vital to mesh law and custom and ensure sustainable and broad economic development.
Past projects include:
Access to finance in Indonesia.
International Finance Corporation (IFC), World Bank Group, Indonesia.
Landesa evaluated a program linking land certification with access to finance, assessed scalability of the program, and provided recommendations for a program aimed at expanding access to finance programs for farmers in Eastern Indonesia. September 2007 to January 2008.
Indonesia land law initiative.
USAID grant through Partnership for Economic Growth program.
Landesa provided legal assistance and provision of legislative drafting training to the National Land Agency in cooperation with the University of Indonesia Graduate School of Law. Landesa aided in the development of draft regulations for the distribution of land to landless and land poor families, regulation on land registration, revisions to Basic Agrarian Law (basic land law), and draft law on land rights. Organization of government drafters and NGO representatives prepared draft law on eminent domain. July 2001 to July 2004.
Indonesian land law reform.
Private foundation supported.
Landesa was involved in research and legal assistance to the Ministry of Justice and the National Land Agency on revising the Basic Agrarian Law (basic land law), drafting a law on ownership. Landesa helped develop a decree to establish a garden-plot distribution program for landless families. November 1998 to June 2001.
Indonesian land law reform.
Checchi Consulting Corporation and USAID.
Landesa provided legal assistance to the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Land on revising the Basic Agrarian Law (land law) and related legislation. July 2000 to December 2000.
Indonesia land tenure assessment.
Agridec and USAID.
Landesa conducted an analysis of key land tenure problems and their relationships to sustainable development in Indonesia. November 1996 to March 1997.
Indonesian land reform pilot project.
Private foundation supported.
Landesa provided research, legal and policy assistance on a land reform pilot project for Indonesian NGOs and government officials. 1989 to 1991.
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