“AUTHORITY AND CAPITAL OWNER, HOARD WEALTH ON THE EXCLUSION PROCESS OF PEOPLE” The State Has Mismanaged, Implement the Agrarian Reform! Agrarian conflict broke out and claimed lives. After a series of events throughout the year in Rokan Hulu-Riau, Sei Minyak-Sumut, Senyerang-Jambi, Wlingi Jatim, Bulukumba-Sulsel, Labuhan Batu-Sumut, Tiaka-Sulteng, Sumber Klampok-Bali, Mesuji-Lampung, Pulau Padang-Riau and in other areas, then the deaths of four people in agrarian cases (mine) in Bima, NTB has added a long list of bad record in agrarian conflict in the homeland which followed by human rights violations by the State on its citizens. Recorded 163 agrarian conflicts have occurred in the year 2011. Inequality control, ownership and management of agrarian resources (land and other natural resources) has resulted in prolonged agrarian disputes in various parts of Indonesia, which eventually led to violence, human rights abuses and the loss of lives of the fighters on their own land. Tens of peasants and landless people which have been uprooted from main production tools, namely the land, must accept the injustice of agrarian and died at the hands of mobile brigade (Brimob), military and corporate thugs who became guard the interests of the authorities and owners of capital on land assets and natural resources that became source of conflict. Arrogance of apparatus in Bima, NTB, one of which is defiantly on the laws and constitution of the republic. The police reason in order to maintain the assets of the company and then opened fire on the people under the pretext was clearly disrupt security can not be justified. Police and military involvement in a variety of agrarian disputes, which appears not as arbiter moreover protective is a form of treason against the law itself. Take a position vis a vis on the people, it is evidence that the apparatus as a tool of corporate guardians and the authorities alone. In fact, people are the victim and who have been uprooted from the land who became the source of livelihood! Whatever the reason, citizens have a strong right to be protected by law and respected as part of The State. In the handling of disputes, agrarian cases such as Mesuji, we herded , as if the cases is just violence . Although the conflicts that occurred requires a thorough treatment, not only handled on a case by case basis by the impromptu investigation team formed by the government and the Parliament every time the case broke. The imbalance between the agrarian structure of landless people (farmers, indigenous peoples, fishing / coastal communities, laborers, urban poor) with the the authorities and owners of capital which became the root of the agrarian problem is untouchable. Agrarian and political systems adopted so far has resulted in control of land and natural resources without limit by the authorities and owners of capital. Procurement of land that was handled by regime became infinite power and arbitrariness in issuing new rights and license the production of mining, plantation, forestry, infrastructure and industrial zones. This fact resulted in loss of access to citizens (farmers) of land as the main source of life and their habitats. Case of Senyerang, Mesuji and Bima is the result. While the agrarian structure of inequality that happens is cause. A total of 71.1% Indonesia’s land area included in the forest area. There are over 25 million acres controlled by HPH, over 8 million acres controlled by HTI and 12 million hectares of plantations controlled by large estates. While 85% of our farmers is the landless and landless peasants. The state has mismanaged! Omission of the imbalance control, ownership, use and management of land and natural resources in it just give birth and nurture scattered agrarian conflicts and disputes in this country. Government and its officials and Parliament should became the social forces which is taking care and realizing the social justice for poor farmers, landless people in rural and hinterland. Therefore, addressing conflict and agrarian disputes that occur, followed by acts of violence and gross human rights violations, then with was, for the Government and Parliament, The Consortium Agrarian Reform (of KPA) demanded: 1. Immediately applied Agrarian Reform as mandated by Law no. 5 Year 1960 (BAL) and TAP MPR No.. IX/2001 by forming Agency to Accelerate Implementation of Agrarian Reform, led directly by the President, and involves the participation of civil society (community organizations) for the realization of essential agrarian justice; 2. Immediately established the National Committee for Agrarian Settlement Cases (KNuPKA) for the resolution of agrarian conflicts and disputes thoroughly - as part of the implementation of genuine agrarian reforms; 3. Stop the military and police intervention in agrarian conflicts and disputes in the country; 4. A thorough investigation of human rights violations that occurred in areas of agrarian conflicts; 5. Immediately revoked the rights and licensing the agencies of production business and conservation in various sectors (plantations, forestry, mining, fisheries / coastal areas) which have been standing on the access exclusion and local people’s rights from the land and other agrarian resources which became their source life; and 6. Immediate review and evaluation of agrarian policy in the plantation sector, forestry, mining, fisheries / coastal areas and the environment that result in overlapping interests and policies of control, ownership and management of agrarian resources in Indonesia. To all members of people’s organizations and NGOs, social movement organizations and networks, let’s close the ranks and strengthen the consolidation of the agrarian reform movement to fight for prosperity and social justice for all Indonesian people. Thus, Press Releases submitted, to the attention of our common Jakarta, December 25, 2011 The Consortium for Agrarian Reform Idham Arsyad Secretary-General