Minister Of ATR/BPN Hadi Tjahjanto Ensures Community Economic Activities Can Continue Despite Agrarian Conflicts

Minister of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning/Head of the National Land Agency (ATR/BPN) Hadi Tjahjanto. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - The Minister of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning/Head of the National Land Agency (ATR/BPN) Hadi Tjahjanto ensured that the community's economic activities would continue as usual when his party was handling agrarian conflicts in the same area.

"Ladies and gentlemen who are still growing sugarcane, corn, and others can still be harvested, can be taken, please harvest everything. What is important for the economy is to keep going, you can still eat," said Minister Hadi while visiting land with agrarian conflicts between PT Perkebunan Nusantara XII with the community in Malang Regency, East Java, quoted from Antara, Monday, June 20.

The Minister of ATR/Head of BPN visited PT Perkebunan Nusantara (PTPN) XII Pancursari Plantation land in Tegalrejo Village, Malang Regency, East Java Province, where the community planters have a Certificate of Ownership on the land.

Minister of ATR/Head of BPN Hadi Tjahjanto who visited this location on Sunday (19/06) listened to the aspirations and had a dialogue with the community planters and representatives of land cultivators, village heads, regents, and the ranks of the local Regional Leadership Coordination Forum (Forkopimda) to find solutions on how people can still use plantation land for their survival.

Hadi Tjahjanto ensured that the community could continue their economic activities during the legal process.

The Minister of ATR/Head of BPN revealed that it would form a task force (task) led by the Head of the East Java Province BPN Regional Office to oversee community activities in the village. The task force also has the function of providing protection to community planters, from planting to harvesting.

"I will send a task force so that the ladies and gentlemen carry out these activities as well as being monitored and given protection," he said.

Hadi said there needs to be an agreement with cross-ministerial, considering that the land belongs to the state. According to him, cooperation can be carried out between the community and PTPN XII so that later the state will also benefit from the results of land use.

"We are thinking about the survival of Mr. Madam, we are also thinking about PTPN XII so that we can get profit for the country, because it belongs to the state. Later the task force will arrange it, supervised by all officers, Mr. and Mrs. Madam can cooperate with PTPN XII's land to be planted accordingly with the wishes of PTPN XII. Ladies and gentlemen who work on it, they are paid every day, then after the results are also given a percentage so that it's safe for you to get everything," said Hadi Tjahjanto.