By Usep Setiawan

Agricultural world, agrarian, and environment of this world recently facing a new threat from the practice of mastery and use of land massively and intensive in wide  scale by the foreign in of a country. 

This was done by reason of productivity of agriculture for world food security, which termed as land grabbing purposed to food colonialism. While we remembrances the International Peasant Struggle Day on April 17 2010, writers focusing on policy regarding food estate in Indonesia in its relation with new challenges above.

Trough mass media, we understand that the controversy has companied the issued of food estate as the latest agricultural development policy which encourages by government of SBY volume II. One of its, this mater has triggers the issued of new regulation in the field of agriculture berupa Government Regulation Number 18 Year 2010 regarding Plant Cultivation Exertion, signed by the President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on January 28, 2010.  

Food estate “nisbat” as a concept of integrated of food production development including agriculture, plantations and animal husbandry with a widely area. Whereas the result of developing of food estate that is sustainability supply of national food and to exported. Several mater which regulate is pro   

Official administration of Oil palm plantation of PTPN VII of Pering Baru Ir. H Nur Alfaris taken hostage by 200 hundreds of Pering Baru villager, Talo Kecil, Seluma Province for 7 hour. This kidnappings action do by the citizen because of their demands to require a land area of 518 hectares considered belongs to the indigenous people who occupied by PTPN VII must be returned to citizen 

This hostage drama begins when hundreds of mass within it mothers and childrens move on foot from settlement of Pering Baru village to the site of the factory CPO and Adm. Offices of PTPN VII but when the street around 1 kilometres from the location of settlement of villager saw administration official of PTPN Nur Alfaris passed into his office then the mass did the hostage.

The representative of advocacy of resident, Firmansyah S. Sos said that the efforts of hostage which done by his side and resident purposed that the demand can be heard and fulfill by PTPN VII and government, not to create a discomfort for PTPN VII and local resident because the demand had appears since the beginning of the opening of plantation of Oil Palm on that land which started since year of 1980 ago. We want to deliver so our demand can fulfilled. The customary land is 518 hectares returned to the resident Firmansyah explained.