Established in 1994, as the Consortium for Agrarian Reform, KPA promotes agrarian reform in Indonesia through advocacy and the strengthening of people’s organizations. KPA’s focus on land reform and tenurial security, and policy advocacy on these issues has put the coalition in the forefront of the land rights struggles of Indonesia’s landless rural poor, especially with the indigenous peoples in several areas in Outer Java. KPA encourages a participatory and pluralistic approach which recognises the development of different systems of land use and tenure to ensure land rights.
Mission:
KPA is built to fight for the realization of a fair agrarian system, and guarantee the balanced spread of agrarian resources for the Indonesian people; guarantee of ownership, mastery and the usage of agrarian sources for the peasant, angler and indigenous people; and also the quarantine of prosperity for the poor people.
Vision:
KPA is a people’s movement that has an open minded and independent character.
Objectives:
To push agrarian policy reform at national and local levels to favor the interest of small farmers and to guarantee the implementation of agrarian reform in Indonesia.
The strengthening of people’s organizations.
Activities/Main areas of work:
Struggle of fulfilling the people’s right, especially peasant/peasant labor, angler, indigenous people and the poor people.
Advocacy that shaped an effort of people’s consciousness changes trough the dissemination of information, formulating the public opinion, collective defending in one side and the change of policy and development strategy that is oriented to the fulfilling of people’s right in the other side.
Preceding an alternative education.
Development of Information network, studies, and internal or external publications.
Development of activities cooperation, program and institution that served on fulfilling the purposes of agrarian reform.
Involved pro-actively in the struggle of solidarity, front/alliance in international struggle for the genuine agrarian reform
Coverage:
Indonesia
Beneficiaries:
Indonesians, particularly the rural communities, peasants and indigenous peoples
