Legal Protection: Converting Agricultural Land To Residential Land (Legal Analysis of Agricultural Land Conversion)

Komaruddin Komaruddin (Universitas Sebelas Maret Surakarta)
I Gusti Ayu Ketut Rachmi Handayani (Universitas Sebelas Maret Surakarta)

Legal Standing : Jurnal Ilmu Hukum
Vol 1, No 2 (2017): September

Indonesian population growth has increased rapidly. Therefore, it needs residential land to build schools, markets, and various public places. This condition makes land conversion increase as agricultural land in Indonesia is wide and relatively easy to be converted. However, if this happen continuously, Indonesia will face endanger of food resilience. Actually, a legal instrument, Law Number 41 of 2009 on Sustainable Food Agricultural Land Protection, is a law that prevents agricultural land conversion for the sake of national food resilience Practically, agricultural land conversion unstoppable and continuously keeps happening. Therefore, judicial approach is significantly required in to comprehensively prevent agricultural land conversion.