Greenation International Journal of Law and Social Sciences
Vol. 4 No. 2 (2026): (GIJLSS) Greenation International Journal of Law and Social Sciences (May - Jun

Agrarian Conflict and the Restriction of Access to Living Spaces: A Case Study of PT. Wira Karya Sakti and Bukit Bakar Village

Atik Winanti (Universitas Pembangunan Nasional “Veteran” Jakarta, Indonesia.)
Alisya Rahma Saebani (Universitas Pembangunan Nasional “Veteran” Jakarta, Indonesia.)



Article Info

Publish Date
22 Jun 2026

Abstract

This comprehensive sociological and legal study investigates the agrarian conflict between PT Wira Karya Sakti and the Bukit Bakar community, manifesting as coercive territorial exclusion rather than mere administrative disputes. Utilizing qualitative methods through secondary data triangulation and doctrinal analysis, this research aims to critically deconstruct the formalistic implementation of Article 50 of the Indonesian Forestry Law. Findings reveal that territorial exclusion operates systematically through regulation, force, market manipulation, and legitimation, clearly constituting a textbook case of state and corporate crime. The state apparatus actively facilitates this physical dispossession, granting absolute impunity to transnational capital while explicitly criminalizing customary tenure. Consequently, the prevailing legal positivism contradicts the ecological justice mandate enshrined in the Green Constitution (Article 33 of the 1945 Constitution). Furthermore, the study demonstrates that Alternative Dispute Resolution mechanisms fundamentally fail in these asymmetrical power landscapes, transforming into sophisticated instruments of coerced subordination rather than equitable consensus. In conclusion, the structural resolution of forestry and agrarian conflicts demands a radical jurisprudential paradigm shift. Moving definitively beyond orthodox legal formalism, the state must comprehensively implement the Green Constitution, ensuring that regulatory frameworks protect communal living spaces and ecological sovereignty instead of serving as bureaucratic catalysts for oligarchical accumulation and repression.

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GIJLSS

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Law, Crime, Criminology & Criminal Justice Social Sciences

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Greenation International Journal of Law and Social Sciences (GIJLSS) is a journal that uses a blind peer-review model that can be accessed online. GIJLSS aims to publish a journal containing quality articles that will be able to contribute thoughts from theoretical and empirical perspectives for the ...