From Rightful Resistance toward Policy Advocacy: A Report on Forestry Land Reform Workshops in Java, Indonesia

Final Report of Human Right Summer Fellowship 2006,

Human Right Center


 Noer Fauzi Rachman

 

 

 

The State Parties to the present Covenant, recognizing the fundamental right of everyone to be free from hunger, shall take, individually and through international cooperation, the measures, including specific programmes, which are needed:

(a)   To improve methods of production, conservation and distribution of food by making full use of technical and scientific knowledge, by disseminating knowledge of the principles of nutrition and by developing or reforming agrarian systems in such a way as to achieve the most efficient development and utilization of natural resources; 

(b)   

(International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Art. 11.2.)

 

 

Introduction

I am writing this report not as a neutral and detached observer, but as an engaged actor in the process of creating, developing and enforcing the rural social movements that will be discussed in the report. The brief report will not cover all the activities of my summer work in Indonesia (see attachment of my timetable), but will only concentrate on some workshops held by KARSA, a Jogjakarta-based NGO that I co-founded in 2002 that works to support rural and agrarian reform initiatives in various areas in Indonesia, with a focus on the concerns of rural communities. KARSA has also started a formal 5-year cooperation with the Institute of International Studies at UC Berkeley through Green Governance, Green Peace: A Program of International Exchange in Environmental Governance, Community Resource Management, and Conflict Resolution. Under this program KARSA is responsible for selecting and sending visiting scholars to Berkeley, managing research and workshops/trainings, and delivering some research-based papers and other related documents. This project is in concert with KARSA’s overall mission to support learning circles at various levels (local, regional and national), and to develop information networks between scholar-activists and concerned scholars on rural and agrarian reform.  Through this program, KARSA has organized workshops on forestry land reform in which participants compare cases of farmer initiatives to facilitate forestry land reform, mainly through land occupation tactics. 

 

Land occupation began after the decline of Indonesia’s Soeharto authoritarian regime and has become a fundamental tactic of local rural movements in Java. The three largest groups in the agrarian movement (from three districts of three different provinces in Java)—Serikat Petani Pasundan (SPP) in Garut, Tasik and Ciamis districts, West Java provincePersatuan Petani Mandiri (PPM) in Wonosobo districts, Central Java province; and Serikat Tani Independent (SEKTI) in Jember districts, East Java province—all have used land occupation as their main collective action to mobilize rural landless, as well as to push the government to change policy concerning the occupied lands. In some areas they have been able to make revolutionary changes in local agrarian structure, land use, and modes of production, transforming areas from plantations to small landholdings. More than that, there are some indications that these local movements have able to change accumulation structures and local political arenas at village and district levels.  This is a very distinct political-economic phenomenon, in contrast with a trend toward economic neoliberalization at the national level, and can be read as a promotion of human rights. When state institutions fail to address chronic agrarian problems, rural social movements have reminded the state of its obligation and showed the way to implement land reform. These voices have taken the form of general critiques of contemporary Indonesia’s neoliberal economy and state reforms, and have drawn their conclusions from the experience of some rural social movements in Java, including those linked to these workshops. 

The KARSA workshops have tried to create space for peasants’ testimonies and demands to access land and other related resources controlled by Perum Perhutani, a state forest company (SFC). Through these workshops, KARSA has tried to promote forestry land reform, by strengthening villagers’ access to land and other related resources that have been controlled by the SFC. These workshops actually provide space for villagers to amplify their voices, which are rooted in their collective actions, to strengthen their access to land mainly through land occupation, to change land use from plantation into agro-forestry areas, and to improve their livelihood through the family farm production system. More than that, the workshops have tried to find various policy windows that can be used as channels to empower village collective action. 

The SFC is a para-state forest company, controlling around 19% of Java’s land, equivalent to 2.9 million hectares, consisting of  62% (1,811,814 ha) production forest, 21% (627,937 ha) protected forest and 15% (442,198 ha) conservation forest. According to data from the Forestry Department and Perhutani (as quoted by Awang, et al. 2006), in 2002 the super-critical forest land within the production forest was about 12.65% (370.130 ha), within protected forest was 6.53% (191,200 ha) and 2.34% (68,375 ha) was within conservation forest. The total area of Java is only 6.5% of the total area of Indonesia, but Indonesians (64%) live on this island. At least 6,200 villages surround the forest, with total inhabitants of around 35 millions. It was estimated that more than 80% of the villagers depend on the forest resources for their family income (Awang, et al. 2006).

KARSA is leading two kinds of workshops, local and national. KARSA is working with local leaders of Serikat Petani Pasundan (SPP), Persatuan Petani Mandiri (PPMand Serikat Tani Independent (SEKTI) to organize the local workshops.  To each workshop, KARSA invited village-level leaders of peasant unions that have had experience struggling for their rights against PP domination and hegemony. KARSA conducted the national workshop in Jakarta, capital city of Indonesia; it was attended by staff and high-level officials of SFCs, and also high-level officials from the Ministry of Forestry and National Land Agency. 

 

Local Workshops

The overarching topic of the local workshops was the historical and sociological bases for land forestry reform agendas in lands controlled by theSFC. In the workshop, we not only dealt with land redistribution, but also tenancy and sharecropping. KARSA is concerned with how villagers can strengthen their access to land and other related resources through significant tenure reform. Using political ecology as a lens, KARSA encouraged the workshop participants to give a testimony about their current access to the land, the process required to access land previously controlled by the SFC, and repression that they felt from the SFC or SFC’s allied parties. They were also encouraged to explore and discuss opportunities and strategies to achieve tenure security on cultivated lands. The local workshops also gave us concrete and practical examples of how rural movement groups have resisted a new SFC national program called Pengelolaan Hutan Bersama Masyarakat or Community Collaborative Forest Management (CCFM). Perum Perhutani believes that CCFM will increase the quality of forest resources, forest productivity and forest security, and it plans to use adjustable forest resource management to suit the social dynamics of local communities around the forest.[1]

KARSA worked with Serikat Petani Pasundan (SPP) on the first local workshop. SPP is the biggest local peasant organization in Java, established in 1999. They organized more than 60 local peasant groups that have conflicts with big plantations and state forest institutions. The organization is one successful example of how a local movement is able to access the land previously controlled by the SFC. Their main tactic is land occupation, followed by joining SPP to conduct serious advocacy work in and outside the village.

For two days activities, on 12 and 13 March, we used permanent and semi-open buildings at SPP’s local chapter in Margaharja Village, Ciamis district.  There are signs that clearly advertise the peasant organization (billboard, flags, banners, posters, etc.). The buildings were located in a land occupation area, near the main road to PP’s forest. Around 30 participants (around 30% are women) come from 12 local chapters of SPP in Tasikmalaya and Ciamis districts. They mostly used public transportation to get to the meeting place, and some of them used their motorcycles. The workshop was opened by the head of SPP’s local chapter, and then officially opened by the Deputy of General Secretary of SPP. I had helped them to structure and then to facilitate the session with the Deputy. 

We had 12 cases of land occupation; we requested each case to make a brief presentation of several main points: sketch-maps of the disputed area, current condition of land tenure, land use and production system, historical sketch of land control, dynamic process of occupation and counter-movement, claims made by occupants and counter-claims from the SFC, and the process to and prospect of legal occupation.  In the full report that will be made by KARSA, they will describe and map the details of the cases, but for this brief report I will summarize commonalities. In most of the cases the SPP local movement tends to have negative attitude toward the SFC. Their general opinion is that CCFM is a new form of counter-movement against their collective initiative to access the land through land occupation and then improve the ecosystem and their livelihood through agro-forestry.  They were frustrated, angry and resistant to the various forms of PP’s control over access to land, control over species, control over forest labor and ideological control. (For a historical account of this control and villager resistance against it, see Peluso 1992.) They did not buy the arguments that CCFM will improve rural livelihood and reforest the land. 

The second local workshop was held at  Pesantren (an Islamic boarding school) in Jember city, Jember district, East Java province, on 25–26 June 2006. KARSA worked with Serikat Tani Independent  (SEKTI), which had six cases of land occupation. NGO activists supporting SEKTI had facilitated the workshop. SEKTI was founded in 2004 and began working with 24 peasant groups that mostly had land-related problems with big private or state owned plantations in Jember district. They have been assisted by a group of NGO activists working in, among others, SD Inpers. Unlike local peasant groups that have a long history of struggle against the big plantations, SEKTI just started this year to recruit and organize forest-dependent peasant groups. So they used this workshop as starting place for understanding the problems, and then developed strategy and tactics relevant to the unique characteristics of tensions between peasant groups and PP.  

Like the workshop with SPP, the facilitator tried to pose some questions to the participants, who had small group discussions and prepared presentations. Also like the SPP workshop, the questions posed by facilitator were descriptive and not analytical. They used sketch-maps to describe where villagers are able to access SFC land, but they did not ask about history of land controlled by the SFC and claims and counter-claims posed by the peasant group and their opponent. In the SPP workshop, I felt there was solidarity between the peasants victimized by the SFC and enthusiasm to support each other, as well as critical consciousness against structural domination (using Freireian terms; see Freire 1972). But, in the SEKTI workshop, I felt a different climate emanating from the participants. They seemed to be disconnected and weak, while the NGOs serviced and supported them to strengthen their weak position vis-à-vis the powerful SFC. Unlike the SPP groups, SEKTI’s local peasant groups generally welcomed CCFM. The participants of this workshop did not challenge the SFC’s powers as SPP did, apart from some NGO activists who were critical of SFC domination and the naïveté of the peasant groups. These activists problematized the method of recruitment of CCFM participants, the composition of stakeholders at the village level, the fee for replanting and also the percentage of profit sharing. There was one peasant leader that really felt comfortable with the CCFM scheme, because he already had benefited from it. So he encouraged the other groups to adopt the CCFM proposal. But the NGO activists, including the facilitator of the workshop, hardly tried to confront the man who promoted it. 

In those two workshops with SPP and SEKTI, a KARSA resource person introduced a legal opportunity for peasant groups to challenge SFC’s right to have territorial control. The legal basis for this opportunity is a legal procedure to determine the status of local rights within the “Forest Zone,” through a detailed four-step process of the Berita Acara Tata Batas (BATB) or Forest Delineation Process Document. This process is outlined as follow: 

Step 1. Preparation of Forest Border Projections

a.     Preparation of map draft

b.     Discussion of forest border

c.     Meeting of forest delineation committee

Step 2. Temporary Forest Border Marking

a.     Preparation of border tract

b.     Temporary marking of border 

c.     Announcement of border tract and marking

d.     Reporting

e.     Field rechecking and forest delineation committee meeting

Step 3. Definite Forest Border Marking

a.     Preparation of maps and working guidelines

b.     Widening of border tract

c.     Definite border meeting

d.     Border measurement

e.     Mapping and reporting

f.      Forest delineation committee meeting

Step 4. Legalization of the Forest Delineation Process Verbal

a.     Preparation of process verbal 

b.     Signing of process verbal

 

KARSA’s resource person believes that there are opportunities to challenge existing SFC claims to control territory/lands. Because this delineation process should be participatory and based on consensual agreement, if there are communities that have land claims over the forest territory, they can refuse to include their land claims in the delineation process. But if the process is just and fair, with a clear explanation of the legal consequences, the area could be legally and legitimately declared a Kawasan Hutan Negara or State Forest Zone. The KARSA resource person quoted a study conducted by Contreras-Hermosilla and Fay (2005), from Forest Trends and the World Agro-forestry Centre, that said, “As of early 2005, the delineation process had covered only 12 million hectares, or just 10% of the 120 million hectare of ‘Forest Zone’, leaving 108 million uncertain as to the nature of rights attached. This means that Indonesia’s official ‘State Forest Zone’ is currently only 12 million hectares, not 120 million as it is commonly perceived.” At the end of the presentation, she recommended that the participants check the delineation processes that targeted the land that they have claimed. She believes that this is a good legal opportunity to challenge PP’s claims to the land and push the Ministry of Forestry to adopt land reform agendas.

At the end of the workshops, the facilitator let the SPP and SEKTI high-level leaders take over the concluding and plan of action sessions, and usually they used the previous workshop session as input for their organizational processes.  

 

Visit to Paguyuban Petani Mandiri (PPM) in Wonosobo, Central Java

KARSA and  the leaders of Paguyuban Petani Mandiri (PPM) Wonosobo changed the workshop format in Wonosobo, by visiting some cases of land occupation in SFC forest land organized by local peasant groups under Paguyuban Petani Mandiri (PPM) Wonosobo. Since its inception in 2002, PPM has been an umbrella organization of more than 20 local peasant groups in Wonosobo districts for whom conflict over forestry lands is their main issue. Wonosobo district is a unique case that concerns decentralizing forest management initiatives. Efforts of farmer groups, NGOs and district parliaments since 1999 culminated in the District Regulation No. 22/2001 on Pengelolaan Sumber Daya Hutan Berbasis Masyarakat or Community-based Forest Management (CBFM), passed by the Wonosobo Legislative Assembly in September 2001 and signed by the district head or bupati a month later.  But both Ministries of Forestry and Home Affairs sought the revocation of CBFM through extra-judicial procedures. The Forestry Minister issued a letter to the Home Affairs Minister requesting  cancellation, using the basis that the SFC has prior rights over the state forest lands concerned and thus the regulation contradicts 1999 Forestry Law. One month later, the General Secretary of Home Affairs issued a letter to the Wonosobo District Head asking for the policy revocation. The apprehension of Home Affairs is said to be coming from an interpretation that CBFM gives Wonosobo District the power to alter the status of forest lands. On top of this, Perhutani submitted a petition for judicial review to the Supreme Court. For fuller account of the “Wonosobo Case” (see Adi, et al. 2005). Some PPM leaders feel that they had been also declined by the Ministry of Forestry and Ministry of Home Affairs because of peasant enthusiasm to respond to this political opportunity and negative peasant responses to cancellation of the district regulation. 

We visited three areas in Wonosobo during our trip of 11–14 July 2006. The first area is a village in Dieng Mountain, a key area that the SFC always uses as an example of local people destroying the forest through illegal cutting and land occupation. There was one peasant leader that was just released from jail three months ago. He had been accused of being a wood thief, but he believed it was because he is a leader of the movement occupying more than 500 hectares of land previously controlled by the SFC. He told us that after he was arrested, membership in the movement declined from 500 members to only six. But now, after he reconsolidated the organization, it regained 60 members. There has been some counter-movement from the SFC and its allies (included the village head) that demobilized PPM members through devide et impera tactics, such as insinuation that they will be jailed and treated as their leader and payment of the public to protest against the district regulation of CBFM. (The SFC paid individuals Rp. 35,000, equivalent to US $7.) With 60 members now, the organization has shown that they are able to reforest the area using agro-forestry style land use, in contrast with PP’s tree plantation style. 

The second area is a 250 ha resettlement area. Almost 20 years ago the villagers were forcefully moved to this area, because their former settlement was a part of the Wadas Lintang Dam area. About a half of the villagers were moved to this area, and others were transmigrated to Sumatera island. The government decided to allocate about 600 ha as a greenbelt area controlled by the SFC. After the District Government declared District regulation No. 22/1991 on CBFM, some NGO activists came to the area to promote the idea that villagers have a right to cultivate the greenbelt previously controlled by the SFC. After that, villagers started to cut pines trees, use the logs and then cultivate the land. Working with police, the SFC conducted a repressive operation to try to force the villagers to use CCFM schemes, but the peasant group refused. Two villagers were jailed for six months. Villagers responded to the repression with protests inside and outside the village.  The result was that almost all the pines were cut, except for a few trees they found on very sloppy land. The SFC withdrew from the area in 2001, and until now there has been no response from the SFC. Persatuan Petani Mandiri leaders perceive that the area is not profitable anymore and it has not be targeted for reforestation projects. We visited the area that was cultivated by the villagers and found an embryo of a agro-forestry complex where peasants cultivate the land with cash crops along with fruit and wood trees. 

The third site that we visited is the most important site for PPM. The PPM leader told us that the village is a very important base for PPM because the area has become a model of how a local peasant group can successfully occupy land previously controlled by PP and change the land use style to agro-forestry.  They already produce cash crops to improve their livelihood and have been able to accumulate domestic capital at the family level.  When we talked with the local leaders about factors that make them successful in the fight against the SFC, they shared with us details of various forms of oppression that PP’s staff and field officers used before the Soeharto authoritarian regime stepped down in 1998. When reformation began, they took revenge with various tactics to kill the pine trees. With guidance from PPM leaders, they have developed a solid organization based on their militant fight against PP and they have been able to push PP out of their area. When we visited the field, we saw some promising agro-forestry plots, and also some villagers that freely cut pine trees to use for cooking firewood. They said that each tree provided six months of firewood for one family.

 

 

National Workshop on Forest Governance

 

This workshop, held in Jakarta on 18–19 June 2007, provided a good understanding of competing strategies between the State Forest Company and its allies, government institutions and rural social movements groups supported by NGO activists. There was a presentation from a National Land Agency (NLA) high official describing the discrepancy between their de jure legal mandate and de facto sectoral and limited authority. Basic Agrarian Law (BAL) No. 5/1960 mandated them to handle all earth surfaces and the resources in it. But actual NLA authority is outside of forest territory and mining concessions, only 23% of the total area of Indonesia.  The NLA only can redistribute state forest land if the Ministry of Forestry decides to exclude it from the state forest zone. On the other hand, if there is no official decision from the Minister of Forestry, there is nothing that they can do. 

A presentation from the SFC director was really helpful to understand new targets of the SFC after their near-bankruptcy in 1997-1999 as consequence of mass illegal logging following the fall of Soeharto’s authoritarian regime. He showed that there was big shift in management of the SFC from a “feudal” system into a modern company, not only at lower levels, but more importantly, at higher levels of management. Significant cases of corruption pushed the SFC to be a more efficient, accountable and transparent business organization. The poverty of forest-dependent communities also stimulated the SFC to take a bigger responsibility in the changing character of the international timber market, in its changing relationship with local communities, and to create a new approach toward combining timber and non-timber products of the SFC. The Community Collaborative Forest Management (CCFM) is one of PP’s new key programs. The presenter tried to use statistics and projections to convince the audience that it would not only solve chronic problems mentioned, but also to bring a bright future to the SFC.

The other important presentation was made by an officer from the Planning Board in the Ministry of Forestry. He shared two preconditions should be understood. First, the Ministry of Forestry has been working under Basic Forestry Law no. 41/99, which means implicitly that they do not work under Basic Agrarian Law no. 5/1960. Second, unlike other departments, the Ministry of Forestry has territorial authority in the Forest Zone. The condition of the forest is not relevant; whether there is a forest ecosystem or not, as long as it is included in the Forest Zone, the Ministry of Forestry has an authority to control and manage the area. So, in this context, the main roles of the Planning Board are macro-planning and delineation of the Forest Zone. In order to create a definite Forest Zone, the Planning Board must clearly delineate area and after that determine the forest function for the area. In SFC areas, the Planning Board has authority to decide whether an area will be designated production forest or protected forest. 

Those three very important presentations at the workshop led us to conclude that forestry land reform is not on the agenda of policy makers of the SFC and government bodies. Given this situation, workshop participants had a serious debate about whether the community should accept or refuse the Community Collaborative Forest Management (CCFM). Participants were split into two camps; some community leaders working with NGOs opposed to CCFM allied with the majority of the participants, while other community leaders and SFC staff worked closely with supporters of CCFM. The two camps shared their arguments, but there was no shifting in positions by the end of workshop. Unfortunately, for technical reasons, participants from the pro-CCFM camp left the arena before the workshop ended and then participants from the anti-CCFM camp continued the workshop to make recommendations for KARSA’s future agenda. 

 

Some Reflections on Rightful Resistance and its Place in Indonesia 

How should we read land occupation as exemplified by some local movements in Java? The introduction of this report clearly indicates that the workshops amplify the lesson  “while policy makers dither, social movements can show the way” (Peter Rosset 2001:7). Peter Rosset has written a valuable account of the development of new rural movements in Latin America and Asia, particularly a transnational rural social movement, Via Campensina. Since the beginning, Rosset has been one of think-tankers of Via Campensina, working with FIAN (a Heidelberg, Germany-based human rights NGO), FoodFirst (an Oakland, California-based research institute on food and development policy) and LRAN (Land Action Research Network) to promote grass-roots agrarian reform, human rights and food sovereignty, not only as defensive and alternative agendas to neoliberalizaion of the rural world, but also as rallying themes of rural social movements for socialist transformation  (Desmarais 2002, Edelman 2003, 2005, Borras 2004, and Pattel 2006).  In another recent paper, referring to work by Wolford (2001), Langevin and Rosset (1997), Barraclough (1999) and Wright and Wolford (2003), Rosset clearly indicates a new trend in the rural world: “In today's conservative, neoliberal political environment, strong grassroots poor people's movements are critical to pushing the reform process, stopping government foot-dragging and, when necessary, taking matters into their own hands. Land occupations are one of the most effective, proven methods of pressuring governments to act” (Rosset 2006, 29). We find a similar conclusion in a new edited volume that locates the centrality of land occupations, The Resurgence of Rural Movements in Africa, Asia and Latin America (Sam Moyo and Peter Yeros, eds., 2005)

We also find that collective land occupations in the field are always defended in public discourse using language of “rights.” At this point, I remember that a prominent critical legal studies scholar, Alan Hunt, used Gramcian ideas of hegemony and counter-hegemony to advance a positive evolution of the place of “rights” strategies within progressive politics (Hunt 1990, 1991). In his view:

Rights take shape and are constituted by and through struggle. Thus, they have the capacity to be elements of emancipation, but they are neither a perfect nor exclusive vehicle for emancipation. Rights can only be operative as constituents of a strategy of social transformation as they become part of an emergent “common sense” and are articulated within social practices. Rights-in-action involve an articulation and mobilization of forms of collective identities. This does not imply that they need to take the form of “collective rights”, but simply that they play a part in constituting the social actors, whether individual or collective, whose identity is changed by and through the mobilization of some particular rights discourse. They articulate a vision of entitlements, of how things might be, which in turn has the capacity to advance political aspiration and action (Hunt 1990:325-326).

The objective of the occupation movements is to change government policies, their implementation and their outcomes, rather than to demand the retreat of state. Yet, they use state language to demand constitutional and legal rights and justify their claims. So we can term it rightful resistance (O’Brien 1995, O’Brien and Li 2006). If the rightful resistance is targeted to change government policies, the next question is a practical one, how can it be made possible? At this point we have to go beyond rightful resistance, and it is relevant to say that we should to combine it with policy advocacy work. 

Berkeley, December 4, 2006

 

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[1] During 1999-2000, the SFC conducted a series of public consultations and discussions with several NGOs and academics to formulate a participatory model of Java forest management, to improve the welfare of local people, and to manage the forest sustainably. The resulting program, Pengelolaan Hutan Bersama Masyarakat or Community Collaborative Forest Management (CCFM), was implemented by the SFC in 2001 with the objectives: (1) to improve the sense of responsibility of the SFC, local people and other actors who have an interest in sustaining the forest; (2) to enhance the role of the SFC, local people and other actors who have an interest in the forest management system; (3) to harmonize all forest management activities and regional development that affects the social dynamic in the nearby village; (4) to enhance the quality of forest resources that coincide with specific problems in the site; and (5) to simultaneously improve the earnings of the SFC, villagers and other interested actors. (SFC’s Regulation No. 136/Kpts/DIR/2001 as quoted by Awang, et al. 2006). 

 

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