Indonesian Lawmakers, Ministers Meet to Tackle Agrarian Issues

Leaders of the Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR) convened with several cabinet ministers to deliberate on critical strategic issues within the agrarian sector. The meeting, led by Deputy Speaker Sufmi Dasco Ahmad, focused on resolving pressing agrarian conflicts and other urgent matters.

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The purpose is to discuss some strategic matters and agrarian conflicts that are very urgent to be resolved immediately.

Also present at the parliamentary complex in Senayan, Jakarta, were other DPR leaders, including Cucun Ahmad Syamsurizal and Saan Mustopa. The government was represented by Minister of Forestry Raja Juli Antoni, Minister of State Secretary Prasetyo Hadi, Minister of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning/Head of the National Land Agency Nusron Wahid, and several deputy ministers.

Dasco Ahmad stated that the primary goal was to discuss strategic issues and the most urgent agrarian conflicts. He emphasized the need for immediate coordination between the DPR and the government, noting that the DPR's Special Committee on Agrarian Affairs (Pansus Agraria) had been unable to achieve significant progress on its own due to the long-term nature of comprehensive agrarian reform.

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If we look at the grand design of this KPA, it will naturally take a long and lengthy time. Meanwhile, the DPR's Special Committee on Agrarian Affairs has not been able to produce much.

Following the meeting, Minister of State Secretary Prasetyo announced the government's formation of a cross-ministerial team tasked with resolving various agrarian cases. He highlighted that the discussions specifically addressed issues such as 73,000 hectares of farmland currently registered as forest areas, identifying these as cases that could be resolved more quickly due to their widespread nature.

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This is the type that can be resolved more quickly, it is widely distributed.