Journal of Indonesian Legal Studies
Vol 7 No 2 (2022): The Interpretation of Justice and Fairness: Theories and Practices in Indonesia a

The Politics Settlement of Land Tenure Conflicts During Jokowi’s Presidency




Article Info

Publish Date
21 Dec 2022

Abstract

This study was prompted by the high rate of land tenure conflicts in forest areas. In the 2015-2020, a total of 10,000 conflicts were experienced in Indonesia, and a legal approach was used to conduct this normative study. Furthermore, the data collection was through literature and the legal norm method was used for analysis. The results showed that the government reduced the treatment of the conflict by establishing the Directorate of Customary Forest Tenure Conflict Management institutions and legal products of Presidential and Ministerial Regulations. However, the forest land tenure conflict was not resolved during the Joko Widodo administration and was increased by 50 percent from the previous administration of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Meanwhile, this conflict can be resolved through the role affirmation of State Administrative Law in determining forest areas with legal certainty and justice. The assertion was conducted by enforcing this law against licensing violations and building integrated conflict resolution in creating legal certainty and equity.

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Abbrev

jils

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Subject

Law, Crime, Criminology & Criminal Justice

Description

LEGAL scholars have been discussing two important roles of law: social control and social engineering. As a social control, law is designed and introduced to control the behaviours of society members in accordance with particular values and norms agreed upon by the community. In this context, the ...