JAKARTA - The resolution of agrarian conflicts in Indonesia in the future is driven by not only focusing on ownership or land administration issues.
The government has begun to prioritize a human rights-based approach (HAM), considering that agrarian conflicts also concern the right to life, the right to justice, the right to security, and the right to a good and healthy environment.
The move came after the Ministry of Agrarian and Spatial Planning/National Land Agency (ATR/BPN) received the results of the study of the Roadmap for the Resolution of Agrarian Conflicts Based on Human Rights (HAM) compiled by the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM), Monday, July 13.
Deputy Minister of Land and Spatial Planning/Deputy Head of the National Land Agency (Wamen ATR/Waka BPN) Ossy Dermawan said that agrarian conflicts are complex issues, so that their resolution cannot be carried out only from the aspect of land.
"Agrarian conflicts are not merely related to our duties and functions in the field of land," said Ossy, quoted from the official website of the Ministry of ATR/BPN, Wednesday, July 15.
This includes issues of the right to life, the right to justice, the right to security, and the right to a good and healthy environment.
Therefore, the Roadmap for the Resolution of Human Rights-Based Agrarian Conflicts is an important guide in efforts to comprehensively resolve agrarian conflicts.
According to Ossy, the study compiled by Komnas HAM for almost three years provides a new perspective by viewing agrarian conflicts as a structural problem.
Ossy assessed that the various recommendations in the study were important inputs for the government to strengthen the handling of agrarian conflicts, both through policy improvements, increased cross-sectoral coordination and strengthening regulations.
"We will report the results of this study to the Minister. We also see opportunities to strengthen the substance of resolving agrarian conflicts through strengthening regulations, so that the steps to resolve them have a stronger foundation," he said.
He ensured that the ATR/BPN Ministry was ready to follow up on various recommendations made by Komnas HAM.
This step, among others, is carried out through strengthening cross-sectoral coordination, joint discussion of priority cases, and making the results of the study as material for the formulation of land policy and regulation in the future.
Meanwhile, Deputy Chairman of the External Affairs of Komnas HAM Putu Elvina emphasized that the roadmap for resolving agrarian conflict based on human rights is not only aimed at the Ministry of ATR/BPN.
Putu assessed that agrarian conflicts are also closely related to the forestry, energy and mineral resources sectors as well as other sectors that intersect.
"Human rights issues are multidimensional and multisectoral. Therefore, the recommendations of this study need to be input for relevant ministries and agencies, including in the discussion of ongoing regulations. Cross-sector collaboration is an important part of efforts to prevent recurring agrarian conflicts," he said.
For this reason, the resolution of agrarian conflicts is considered to require synergy between ministries and agencies so that it not only resolves land disputes, but also provides protection for the rights of affected people.
With a human rights-based approach, the government hopes that the resolution of agrarian conflicts can be carried out more comprehensively while preventing similar conflicts from recurring in the future.
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