scholarly journals Decolonizing Agrarian Knowledge and the Emergence of Indonesian Critical Agrarian Studies

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Ahmad Nashih Luthfi
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Land Reform ◽  
Green Revolution ◽  
Land Rights ◽  
New Order ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Agrarian Studies ◽  
Agrarian Development

Agricultural production growth has been the main priority in agrarian development in Indonesia but its ends and means have been varied. In the colonial era, an export- oriented colonial plantation system resulted in the transformation of the Indonesian land tenurial system. In the post-colonial period, Soekarno’s regime pursued agrarian development seeking to strengthening people’s land rights through its land reform policies. Land rights were seen as the basis for agricultural production. Soeharto’s New Order regime implemented its Green Revolution policy by developing agricultural mechanization and extensification which managed to improve agricultural production, but it gave greater privileges to the rural elite class and caused dependence on foreign inputs and aid. All agrarian policies were supported by knowledge produced through the research of influential institutions and individuals, including critical responses against the impacts of the transformation of land tenure. In this context, knowledge in agrarian studies with its critical perspectives were re-shaped as part of the process of knowledge decolonization.

scholarly journals Traditionality and Modernity: Post-Colonial Architecture in Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
pp. 01003
Author(s):  
Kani Muthmainnah ◽  
Kemas Ridwan Kurniawan
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
New Order ◽  
Current Development ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
International Style ◽  
Old Order

The paradigm of traditionality in Indonesian modern architecture becomes a polemical discourse especially in relation to the development of Indonesian architecture identity in the post-colonial era. The awareness and spirit of exploring identities give birth to new experiments and ideas, assuming traditionality as the anti-thesis of Indonesian International-Style modernism initiated during the Old Order. The focus of this research is to explore different operation and practice of the paradigm in Indonesian architecture discourse much or less alluded with power and politics during the Old and New Order. The aim of this research is to redefine the meaning of traditionality in Indonesian Modern Architecture. This research uses qualitative approach by using a discursive method to analyse the representation of traditionality in Indonesian post-colonial architecture. The author expects to elaborate the manifesto of traditionality through a categorization that is based on the implementation of values, forms, processes, and changes toward the condition of the current development.

Reflections on the Constitutional Regulation of Property and Land Rights under the 2013 Zimbabwean Constitution

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Tsabora
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Land Rights ◽  
Distribution Patterns ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Contested Space ◽  
Land Dispossession ◽  
Rights Discourse

AbstractProperty rights discourse, particularly the scope, nature, distribution, redistribution, recognition and protection of property rights, has dominated debate in African post-colonial property rights systems. In Zimbabwe, property rights law has been a contested space since the colonial era. That the property rights system is a contested arena is particularly so in view of the fact that colonial subjugation in Zimbabwe was characterized, in a very important way, by politically motivated land dispossession and, consequently, inequitable property rights distribution patterns. As a result, Zimbabwe's property rights law has always responded to mainstream, albeit fluid, political and economic undercurrents. This has meant that mainstream historical and contemporary debates have provided the context for understanding the constitutional regulation of property and land rights in Zimbabwe. This article assesses the constitutional regulation of constitutional property and land rights in Zimbabwe, and the conflicts and tension that are accommodated in the constitutional property rights framework.

Alliance Project

2009 ◽  
pp. 956-960
Author(s):  
Shigenobu Sugito ◽  
Sachiko Kubota
Keyword(s):  
Land Rights ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Indigenous Identity ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Support Tool ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Third ◽  
Arnhem Land ◽  
Develop Software ◽  
Rights Issues

This study has three main aims: 1. to develop software for an indigenous kinship database and genealogy using a crossplatform Java engine; 2. to contribute to a kinship study, which will serve as a fieldwork support tool for anthropologists; and 3. to assess the importance and potential of the kinship database and genealogy in IT-based indigenous knowledge management. Regarding the third aim, we would like to emphasize the importance of kinship data in the post-colonial era, and the need for kinship data in land rights issues and the recognition of indigenous identity, as well as the possibility of the autonomous use of this visualized kinship database by indigenous peoples in the future. The Alliance Project, which is named after the alliance theory by C. Levi-Strauss (1969), started as the management of a kinship study for the Yolngu people of Eastern Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia, and was later extended to the study of kinship in general.

Beyond Land Redistribution: A Case for Stewardship in Land Reform

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-96
Author(s):  
Menard Musendekwa ◽  
Munyaradzi Tinarwo ◽  
Rumbidzayi Chakauya ◽  
Ereck Chakauya
Keyword(s):  
Land Reform ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Religious Conflicts ◽  
Current Article ◽  
The Right ◽  
Land Question

The right to own and derive value out of the land, (cf. ownership) is a human right enshrined in the constitution of most democratic countries. Land reform is arguably the most emotional, socio-economic, and political subject of the colonial and post-colonial era of the African continent. It is a subject that has remained sacred and a taboo creating a fertile ground for protracted political, social, economic, and religious conflicts. Many African indigenous communities are genuinely struggling to address inequality and deprivation. Despite the overwhelming economic demand to address the land question, only a handful of African countries have been bold enough to tackle the issue head-on, sometimes with dire consequences. In the current article, we use the Zimbabwe land reform programme as a case and through a biblical lens show cause for land not just as a commodity where belonging is the ultimate deciding factor but rather emphasise ownership by stewardship. This perspective is compatible with modern systems of governance, ubuntu in the African traditional culture, and encourage efficiency of production to achieve food security despite the polarised discourse of land reform in most countries.

scholarly journals The ejido-system in Mexico; some observations.

1962 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-89
Author(s):  
R.A.L. Lincklaen Arriens
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Land Reform ◽  
Legal Regulations ◽  
Working Population ◽  
Reform Program ◽  
National Production ◽  
The Creation

The author gives an appraisal of the land reform program in Mexico and an evaluation of the results. Although the agricultural production per worker has doubled during the last twenty years, the gross agricultural production has tripled in the same period, while the working population at present engaged in agriculture which amounts to 50 per cent of the working population, contributes only 20 per cent to the national production. On the ejidos the production per worker and per hectare are much less than the average. The author concludes that too much value has been attached to the land tenure aspects and the legal regulations and too little to the creation of opportunities for efficient farming. E. (Abstract retrieved from CAB Abstracts by CABI’s permission)

scholarly journals Indonesian Political Islam: Capitalist Development and the Legacies of the Cold War

2011 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vedi R. Hadiz
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Political Islam ◽  
New Order ◽  
Capitalist Development ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Sociological Factors ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The City

This article explores the genesis of Indonesian political Islam and its interactions with the nationalist secular state in the immediate post-colonial era while examining some of the origins of the ‘radical’ stream that has garnered much attention in the current post-authoritarian period. It puts forward the idea that, rather than an outcome of Indonesian democratisation, this stream was in fact the product of authoritarian New Order rule. The article also considers some parallels in the trajectories of political Islam more generally in Indonesia, the Middle East and North Africa, especially as a kind of populist response to the tensions and contradictions of global capitalism. It addresses the city of Surakarta (Solo) as a case study and highlights the importance of Cold War politics in moulding political Islam in Indonesia and elsewhere. The approach emphasises historical and sociological factors shaping political Islam that have tended to be relegated to the background in prevalent security-oriented analyses concerned with issues of terrorism and violence.

Land Reform among the Mbeere of Central Kenya

Africa ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 182-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Brokensha ◽  
Jack Glazier
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Land Reform ◽  
Land Rights ◽  
South West ◽  
Tana River ◽  
The Social ◽  
Opening Paragraph ◽  
Central Kenya

Opening ParagraphThe Mbeere live in the area east of Mount Kenya and south-west of the Tana River. Numbering just under 50,000 they are ethnographically much less well known than their related neighbours the Kikuyu, Embu, Meru, and Kamba. In this paper we first outline the social organization, then the system of land rights, continuing to describe the government's programme of land reform, concluding by assessing the probable consequences of changes in land tenure.

Understanding Land Reform in Ghana

2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 661-680 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franklin Obeng-Odoom
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Land Reform ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Institutional Framework ◽  
Concerted Effort ◽  
Development Discourse ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Political Economic

Land reform has become particularly prominent in development discourse in recent times. Advocates emphasize its importance for poverty reduction in underdeveloped economies. However, how reform comes about and evolves and what it is and does is situated, not universal, as neoclassical economists suggest. This paper sheds light on the meaning, evolution, and outcomes of land reform in Ghana. It draws on historical and contemporary socio-legal and political-economic sources of evidence, analyzed within a critical postcolonial institutional framework. It shows important features of continuity and change in both colonial and post-colonial land reform. While pre-colonial land tenure relations are misrepresented as entailing no market activities, the concerted effort to introduce “capitalist markets” into the land sector to produce “socially efficient outcomes” has led to contradictory results.

scholarly journals Horizontalism in the implementation of land redistribution program in Cipari Cilacap Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 905 (1) ◽  
pp. 012123
Author(s):  
D D Saleh ◽  
A W E Mulyadi ◽  
N P Reressy ◽  
Junaidi ◽  
D W Pujiriyani
Keyword(s):  
Land Reform ◽  
New Order ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Land Redistribution ◽  
Old Order ◽  
State Actors ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Depth Interviews

Abstract This study explains the dynamics of non-state actors’ involvement in implementing a land redistribution program in Cipari, Cilacap, Indonesia. The urgency of this study is the massive involvement of non-state actors in the implementation of land redistribution programs while lacking analysis found for the dimension of horizontalism in the implementation of public policies, especially related to the land redistribution program as a part of land reform policy programs in Indonesia. This study focuses on the involvement of non-state actors, the role of Street-Level Bureaucrats (SLBs), and the relationship between SLBs and Local Farmers Organizations (LFO). This study implemented a qualitative approach with a case study strategy. The key informants consisted of village heads, village officials, LFO administrators, and administrators of LFO advocate organizations. We performed observation, in-depth interviews, and documentation reviews for data collection and implemented thematic data analysis. Three main findings include the non-state actors’ involvements since the colonial era (pre-independence), the old order, the new order, to post-reformation, the role of SLBs as state actors dominating the implementation of the land redistribution program, and the negotiation relationship between SLBs and LFO showing the SLBs as the winner.

scholarly journals The Politics of Land Law: Poverty and Land Legislation in Bangladesh

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
S M Masum Billah
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Land Reform ◽  
Law Reform ◽  
Land Law ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Land Distribution ◽  
Land System ◽  
Land Tenure System ◽  
Historical Developments ◽  
Reform Model

<p>This thesis examines the major colonial and post-colonial land laws of Bangladesh and their relationship with poverty. It interprets them in the light of historical developments and social realities. The thesis argues that land laws in Bangladesh are essentially anti-poor. They contribute to the perpetuation of poverty.  At present, two-thirds of the poor in Bangladesh are land-related poor. The land system that prevailed in colonial Bengal during the British period deprived the peasants of their land rights. This situation demanded a radical land reform based on a distributive approach upon decolonisation in 1947. Unfortunately, in the post-colonial political and legal settings of Bangladesh, land distribution has been unequal. Such inequality coupled with a weak land tenure system and fragile institutional reform created widespread poverty.  The Bangladeshi land laws are complex and vague and dominated by politics. Its land law regime has structural loopholes and ideological drawbacks, which are enough to make reform attempts dysfunctional.  Poverty in Bangladesh is a result of cumulative and mutually reinforcing deprivations. Land law is a major participant in it. Poverty will persist unless law addresses the true reasons of the poverty and a pro-poor approach to land reform is pursued.  The gap between “law” and “land” is exposed and a distributive land law reform model is proposed.</p>

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