Debat Cawapres, Cak Imin Sindir Orang Bekuasa Punya 500.000 Ha Tanah

JAKARTA - Candidate for Vice President (Cawapres) number 3 Muhaimin Iskandar said farmers and fishermen are domestic helpers. However, the state and government ignore the lives of farmers and fishermen today.

In addition, Cak Imin also criticized the government about the condition of farmers in Indonesia, which he said was concerning because they only had an average land of only half a hectare.

"Today we are witnessing evidence that the results of the bps agricultural census show that in the last 10 years there has been a number of households of almost 3 million Gum farmers," he explained in the second vice presidential debate on Sunday, January 21, 2024.

Referring to BPS data, the majority of 15.89 million farmers or almost 16 million do only have an agricultural land area of less than 0.5 hectares (ha). A total of 4.34 million farmers have agricultural land only in the range of 0.5-0.99 ha.

"This means that 16 million farmers' households only have half a hectares of land. Meanwhile, there is someone who owns 500,000 hectares of land as power given to him by the state," he explained.

Cak Imin said that he would stop the Food Estate project. Food Estate is a project launched and carried out by the government of President Joko Widodo.

"We are very concerned that efforts to procure national food are carried out through the Food Estate, which is proven to ignore our farmers, leave indigenous peoples, create agrarian conflicts and even damage the environment," said Cak Imin.