Abstract
The amount of land that can be controlled by humans is very limited, while people with an interest in land are always increasing. The increasing number of people (residents) who need land for various life activities and supported by progress and economic, socio- cultural and technological development causes the demand for land to be available in large quantities such as for housing, factories, plantations, livestock, offices, entertainment venues or roads that connect one place to another, all of which require a large amount of land. Therefore the longer the land is felt to be increasingly narrow, becoming less, while the demand for land is increasing. Imbalance between the availability of land and the need for land, has caused many problems, which sometimes the problem is very difficult to find a solution.
There are four main agrarian problems in Indonesia as stated in MPR Decree No. IX of 2001, namely: narrow and unequal ownership of land, land conflicts, legal inconsistencies, and damage to natural resources. All must be the main agenda to be completed before arriving at the formulation of the ideal landreform concept, namely "land to tillers". According to data collected by the Agrarian Reform Consortium (2004), as of 30 December 2001 there were 1,753 land conflict cases across Indonesia that covered a total area of 10,892,203 ha of land, and involved 1,189,482 families. Specifically in the field of agricultural development, some of the problems faced are increasingly narrow land tenure, the difficulty of stemming the conversion to agricultural use, tenure conflicts, and land fragmentation. The land man ratio in Indonesia in 2004 with an estimated population of 215 million and an area of 7.8 million ha of agricultural land was 362 m2 per capita. This figure is much lower for example compared to Thailand which reached 1870 m2 per capita and Vietnam 1300 m2 per capita (Syahyuti, 2004).