Origin of land disputes

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-31
Author(s):  
Yuka Kaneko
Keyword(s):  
2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Havatzelet Yahel
Keyword(s):  

Man ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 319 ◽  
Author(s):  
William W. Donner
Keyword(s):  

2009 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 361-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
James D. Fearon

When Things Fell Apart manages to be wonderfully concise but still compelling. The thing Robert Bates seeks to explain is the secular trend in sub-Saharan Africa toward civil war, although he often characterizes this in broader terms, as a trend toward “political conflict” or “political disorder.” He explains the trend as follows: Public revenues fell in the 1970s and 1980s as a result of commodity price declines, effects of the second oil shock, and bad economic policy choices that overtaxed farmers so that politicians could dispense patronage to smaller, politically more important urban constituencies. The decline in public revenues led elites to become more predatory, which caused an increase in political conflict by mobilizing opposition. Popular demands for political reform, along with increased international pressure for the same at the end of the Cold War, heightened elite insecurity and led to more predation. This had the effect of “provoking their citizens to take up arms” (p. 109). Further, state decline and national-level conflicts exacerbated simmering subnational conflicts, typically in the form of land disputes between locals and migrants from other tribes.


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 97
Author(s):  
Sakti Ritonga ◽  
Oekan S. Abdoellah

<p><strong>Abstrak:</strong> <strong>Praktik Kekerabatan Batak Toba Muslim sebagai Strategi Pengendalian Lahan di Asahan.</strong> Studi ini menunjukkan pemakaian relasi kekerabatan Batak Toba Muslim sebagai strategi penghidupan bagi penguasaan tanah dalam ruang penguasaan yang ganti berganti sejak era Melayu-Islam di Asahan melalui perspektif teori praktik dari Bourdieu. Penelitian dilakukan dengan metode etnografi. Satuan analisis ditetapkan secara berjenjang mulai keluarga, kelompok keturunan, perkumpulan marga, serta komunitas Batak Toba pada wilayah perkampungan pedalaman Bandar Pulau, Bandar Pasir Mandoge dan Buntu Pane. Studi menemukan siasat-siasat adaptasi telah memperluas aliansi dan meningkatkan fungsi praktis kekerabatan Batak Toba dalam upaya penguasaan tanah sebagai sumber daya penghidupan terpenting sebagai satuan kekerabatan berkorporasi. Kontestasi terhadap lahan semakin rumit seiring masuknya pengaruh modal korporasi perkebunan dan kekuatan negara di perkampungan. Ketika berhadapan dengan kepentingan institusi lain yang lebih besar seperti perusahaan perkebunan dan negara dalam hal sengketa lahan, tampak siasat penggunaan jaringan marga atau kelompok keturunan menjadi terbatas fungsinya, jika dibandingkan dengan persaingan sumber daya di antara sesama keluarga Batak Toba.  </p><p><strong>Kata Kunci: </strong>praktik kekerabatan, strategi mata pencaharian, migrasi, Muslim Batak Toba<br /><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Abstract</strong>: This study shows the use of Toba Batak Moslem kinship relations as a livelihood strategy for land control in the changing space of power since the Malay-Islamic era in Asahan through the perspective of Bourdieu's theory of practice. The research was conducted using ethnographic methods. The analysis units are determined in stages starting from the family, descent group, clan association, and the Toba Batak community in the hinterland areas of Bandar Pulau, Bandar Pasir Mandoge and Buntu Pane. The results of the study found that adaptation strategies have expanded alliances and increased the practical function of the Toba Batak kinship in an effort to control land as the most important source of livelihood as a corporate kinship unit. Contestation of land is getting more complicated as the influence of plantation corporate capital and state power enters the village. When dealing with the interests of other larger institutions such as plantation companies and the state in terms of land disputes, it appears that the use of clan networks or descent groups is limited in function, when compared with the competition for resources among Toba Batak families.  <br /><strong> </strong><br /><strong>Keywords:</strong> kinship practices, livelihood strategies, migration, Toba Batak Moslem</p>


GANEC SWARA ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 120
Author(s):  
WAYAN RESMINI

Land for human life contains a multidimensional meaning, both in terms of social, economic, political and sacred aspects. Because it has a multidimensional meaning, unquestionably every person who owns land will defend his land in any way if his rights are violated.     Land disputes are not a new thing happening in the community. But the dimension of disputes is increasingly widespread in the present, including customary land in its development also has a new value, besides as a means of production, also as a means to speculate (economy) that land has become a commodity where economic transactions take place with expectations of margin (financial) trade in exchanged commodities.     Issues of customary land with a formal juridical approach will not achieve effective results. Law not merely customary is expected to overcome land problems that are so complex and too related to the application of existing laws and regulations. This is needed support with various efforts to ensure the fulfillment of the economic rights of the people, so that at least similar demands can be minimized in the future. In addition, a synergy of positive law in the land sector is needed with customary law in the community, namely (1) an objective understanding of State land, communal land and land rights is needed in the context of customary law and positive law. (2) The approach taken is a persuasive-educational approach and not imposing unilateral will. (3) the need for a cultural religious approach, which can be implemented through three (3) leadership elements, namely traditional leaders, religious leaders, and formal leaders who truly understand traditional law and positive law (UUPA and implementing regulations)


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