Research Article
Agrarian Conflicts Plantations in North Sumatera
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.24-10-2019.2290633, author={Hidayat Hidayat and Ichwan Azhari and Samsidar Tanjung}, title={Agrarian Conflicts Plantations in North Sumatera }, proceedings={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies (formerly ICCSSIS), ICCSIS 2019, 24-25 October 2019, Medan, North Sumatera, Indonesia}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={ICSSIS}, year={2019}, month={12}, keywords={agrarian conflict plantations hungry for land government's denial}, doi={10.4108/eai.24-10-2019.2290633} }- Hidayat Hidayat
Ichwan Azhari
Samsidar Tanjung
Year: 2019
Agrarian Conflicts Plantations in North Sumatera
ICSSIS
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.24-10-2019.2290633
Abstract
Plantation agrarian conflict is an agrarian conflict that is quite prominent in the area which is the center of plantations in north Sumatra. Agrarian conflicts can analyze from Marxian and Weberian perspectives. The agrarian conflict in North Sumatra in the period 1970-2000 the quantity and quality was the biggest agrarian conflict outside of Java. The agrarian conflict in North Sumatra, is caused by the development and expansion of plantation businesses; development of conservation and protection forests; development of transmigration areas, and an increase in people who are "hungry for land" as a result of life difficulties, narrowing of employment opportunities in both the formal and informal sectors and the rise in layoffs. The agrarian conflicts of plantations in North Sumatra can be identified as follows: agrarian conflicts arise because of the government's denial of people's socio-economic rights; related to the effort of unilateral manipulation and interpretation of the government and capital owners regarding the State's Right to Control over land, use of instruments criminal law, intimidation and violence through the mobilization of the apparatus against the people who fight and claim their rights to land and in every agrarian conflict, the community is on the weak side and has no bargaining.