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A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Environmental Science, Policy and Management in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley
Committee in charge:
Professor Nancy Lee Peluso (Chair)
Katherine O’Neill
Professor Louise Fortmann
Professor Gillian Hart
Professor Michael J. Watts
Fall 2011
© 2011 Noer Fauzi Rachman
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Abstract
On January 31, 2007, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono announced a new land redistribution program that was part of the implementation of a land reform policy called Reforma Agraria. The program was to be launched in conjunction with a land registration program as part of a government strategy to eradicate poverty. The launch of the program was a watershed event that had been engineered by the head of the National Land Agency (NLA) in collaboration with agrarian movement activists who had struggled for years for agrarian social justice.
The resurgence of land reform policy was fostered through a unique partnership of activists, scholars, and reformist government officials. This new political space for manuever was made possible in 1998 by the end of Suharto's "New Order" which had previously harnessed the bureaucracy, police, and military to control the rural masses through various mechanisms of coercion and consent, while constructing the apparatus for centralizing management and reaping profits from the nation's land and forest resources.
