Fields & Land Awarded to Landlords

September 18, 2000

Hardly any change of actors has taken place in the country’s "land disputes stage show ". Locals and customary landowners stand against the government, the military and investors. The infographic below shows how the former are always on the losing side. This is highly contradictory to the popular land reform spirit contained in the Basic Agrarian Law (BAL): to allow every farm household to own a maximum of 12 hectares of land for cultivation.

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