Indonesia was founded on the ideal of the "Sovereignty of the People", which suggests the pre-eminence of people's rights to access, use and control land to support their livelihoods. Yet, many questions remain unresolved. How can the state ensure access to land for agriculture and housing while also supporting land acquisition for investment in industry and infrastructure? What is to be done about indigenous rights? Do registration and titling provide solutions? Is the land reform agenda — legislated but never implemented — still relevant? How should the land questions affecting Indonesia's disappearing forests be resolved?

The contributors to this volume assess progress on these issues through case studies from across the archipelago: from large-scale land acquisitions in Papua, to asset ownership in the villages of Sulawesi and Java, to tenure conflicts associated with the oil palm and mining booms in Kalimantan, Sulawesi and Sumatra. What are the prospects for the "people's sovereignty" in regard to land?

Contents

1. Land, economic development, social justice and environmental management in Indonesia: The search for the people's sovereignty , by John F McCarthy, Kathryn Robinson

PART 1: LAND USE AND LAND LAW: THE BIG PICTURE
2. The plantation and the mine: Agrarian transformation and the remaking of land and smallholders in Indonesia , by Nancy Lee Peluso
3. Indonesian land law: Integration at last? And for whom? , by Adriaan Bedner

PART 2: ENVIRONMENTAL AND CUSTOMARY FRAMING OF LAND TENURE
4. Emerging options for the recognition and protection of indigenous community rights in Indonesia , by Chip Fay, Ho-Ming So Denduangrudee
5. REDD, land management and the politics of forest and land tenure reform with special reference to the case of Central Kalimantan province , by Suraya A. Afiff
6. Mining, land and community rights in Indonesia , by Kathryn Robinson

PART 3: URBAN AND INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT
7. Eminent domain and infrastructure under the Yudhoyono and Widodo administrations , by Jamie Seth Davidson
8. Housing low- and middle-income households: Land development and policy practice in two Indonesian cities , by Delik Hudalah, Yunie Nurhayati Rahmat, Tommy Firman
9. Land and housing security for the urban poor , by Patrick Guiness

PART 4: AGRICULTURE, LAND TENURE AND LIVELIHOODS
10. After 200 years, why is Indonesia's cadastral system still incomplete? , by Pierre van der Eng
11. Agrarian transformations and land reform in Indonesia , by Jeff Neilson
12. Land tenure and agrarian structure in regions of small-scale food production , by Aprilia Ambarwati, Ricky Ardian Harahap, Isono Sadoko, Ben White

PART 5: LARGE-SCALE LAND ACQUISITIONS AND SMALLHOLDER DEVELOPMENT
13. Industrial plantations and community rights: Conflicts and solutions , by Afrizal, Patrick Anderson
14. How can the people's sovereignty be achieved in the oil palm sector? Is the plantation model shifting in favour of smallholders? , by Lesley Potter
15. Beyond special autonomy and customary land rights recognition: Examining land negotiations and the production of vulnerabilities in Papua , by Laksmi Adriani Savitri, Susanna Price