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FOOD SECURITY OR THE RECONFIGURATION OF INDIGENOUS LIVING SPACE? A MULTI-LEVEL PERSPECTIVE ON THE FOOD ESTATE PROJECT IN SOUTH PAPUA Andis Destrian Irianto; Rizky Fadilah; Vlaradhia Sakura Annisa Gricylla
Multidiciplinary Output Research For Actual and International Issue (MORFAI) Vol. 6 No. 2 (2026): Multidiciplinary Output Research For Actual and International Issue
Publisher : RADJA PUBLIKA

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19256042

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This study examines the Food Estate project in South Papua, Indonesia, as a contested development intervention in Indigenous territories through the Multi-Level Perspective (MLP) framework. Although officially promoted as a response to global food insecurity and national self-sufficiency, the project has generated persistent social, ecological, and political conflicts with Indigenous communities. Using a qualitative case study approach based on document analysis and secondary literature, the research analyzes interactions across landscape, regime, and niche levels. The findings show that global food crisis narratives and climate uncertainty legitimize large-scale state intervention, while centralized, corporate-driven governance marginalizes Indigenous food systems rooted in sago forests, wetlands, and agroforestry. Rather than enabling a sustainable transition, these interactions intensify structural conflict, environmental degradation, and the erosion of Indigenous food sovereignty. The study concludes that the Food Estate represents a reorganization of Indigenous living space and calls for more plural, justice-based, and ecologically embedded food governance.
Socio-Technical Transformation of Rural Agriculture: Community-Based Coffee Agroforestry Innovation in Girimekar Village Andis Destrian Irianto; Vlaradhia Sakura Annisa Gricylla; Rizky Fadilah
Jurnal Sosioteknologi Vol. 25 No. 2 (2026): JULY 2026
Publisher : Fakultas Seni Rupa dan Desain ITB

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.5614/sostek.itbj.2026.25.2.2

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This study examines socio-technical transition and community-based innovation in Girimekar Village, focusing on how local actors respond to ecological pressures, institutional change, and economic opportunities. Using a qualitative case study, the research analyzes the transition from conventional vegetable farming to coffee-based agroforestry. Data were collected through in-depth interviews with farmers, village officials, Perhutani representatives, youth groups, and facilitators, plus participatory observation and analysis of village documents. The analysis combines the multi-level perspective, which explores interactions between niche, regime, and landscape levels, with actor-network theory, which captures relational dynamics between human and nonhuman actors. The findings show that the transition is not simply a change in crops but a broader socio-technical reconfiguration shaped by collective learning, hybrid knowledge systems, improved land-access arrangements, and strengthened actor networks. Coffee functions as a niche innovation that stabilizes through local experimentation, ecological suitability, and expanding markets, while PHBM schemes and village programs facilitate integration into everyday production. This study contributes to socio-technical transition literature by demonstrating how rural innovation in Indonesia emerges through negotiated community-based processes. Unlike work emphasizing technological adoption, it highlights the relational and territorial dimensions through which local knowledge, collaborative governance, and agroforestry collectively shape sustainable rural transformation.