Jl. Kihiur No. 44
Bandung 40114
Tel: 62 22 7214706
Contact: Erpan Faryadi
www.kpa.or.id/

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.

Goals: KPA has three goals:

• to spread people-oriented and gender-sensitive ideas of agrarian reform;
• to influence policy change transforming current agrarian policies that primarily benefit the national elite and big foreign investors, to pro-rural poor policies;
• to strengthen the capacities of farmers’ and indigenous peoples’ organisations.

Member of the International Land Coalition 2003

Advocacy Events

ICARRD 2006 Engaging Governments and Civil-Society: the Experience of National and Regional Networks

Presentation at the International Land Coalition Global Assembly, Bolivia 2005

Launching LAND Parnterships at WSSD, Johannesburg, 2002

Community Empowerment Facility

Initiatives to Promote Land Reform - INFORM Improving Competencies of Peasant Leaders in Organizing and Advocacy

Women's Resource Access Programme

"Women's Access to Land and Other Natural Resuorces in Indonesia". A Series of two workshops conducted with poor rural villagers in West Java.
Women's Access WRAP

LAND Partnerships

ARnet

Policy dialogue, campaigns and lobbying. In the context of these land conflicts, KPA’s work focuses on critical policy dialogue on three issues:

• Protection and recognition of indigenous peoples’ land (customary land rights),
• Land reform as a precondition for development, and
• Dispute mechanisms.

As part of its lobbying, KPA intensified its efforts for the passage of the Decree for Agrarian Reform with the People’s Assembly which had committed to passing the legislation in 1999. With support of other civil society organisations, it continues to play a pivotal role in public discourses on the land issue, campaigns, mobilising and assisting ‘victims’ of land displacements, and other support activities.

Representing people’s concerns. KPA serves as an intermediary between the farmers and indigenous peoples and outside interests with power, such as government or business. It attempts to ensure that peoples’ concerns are represented and articulated at different levels of decision-making, which otherwise would not happen.

Research, documentation and publications. To obtain a better picture of the land situation throughout the country, KPA has conducted collaborative studies on the land reform struggles and agendas in both ‘inner Indonesian’ and ‘outer Indonesian’ regions, Its studies and publications have provided impressive overviews of agrarian issues in the country through popularising important findings without oversimplifying complex issues and sacrificing intellectual rigor.

Building knowledge on agrarian reform implementation through monitoring of projects. KPA is currently undertaking monitoring of the Land Administration Project, which is a land titling project of the World Bank and AusAid because the project is making serious fundamental changes with regard to land issues. In particular, it is focusing on the role of the World Bank, Australian companies and AusAid in the project which can help to inform other civil society organisations with similar titling projects elsewhere.

Farmers
Indigenous peoples
Agriculture Workers
Fishers
Forest Users/dwellers
Indigenous Peoples and Ethnic Minorities
Landless
Peasants
Women

Lobbying and Policy advocacy
Research and documentation
Support for land rights
Education and training on land rights
Land Tenure Systems
Community Capacity Building
Network Building
Institutional Development
Legislation, Regulations and Legal Support
Policy Research
Land Literacy
Women's Access to Land
Indigenous Peoples Resources Rights
Conflict and Conflict Resolution
Land and Water Rights
Environmental Sustainability
Extractive Industries