LEGISLATIVE POLICY ANALYSIS OF LEGAL PROTECTION FOR FARMERS IN THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TRADITIONAL FARMER CULTIVATION

Abstract

Countries should be able to meet their basic needs, in terms of the realization of food sovereignty in the country. Indonesia is constitutionally obliged to pay attention to legislative policy which guarantees legal protection for farmers in support of the food sovereignty. This study aims to determine how the state regulates in providing legal protection for farmers, policies on soil and agricultural land sufficient for farmers in Indonesia. This research was conducted with normative juridical approach to assess legislative policies governing land use for agriculture and agricultural land area. By using primary legal materials in the form of various statutory provisions governing the allotment of land for agriculture. Techniques of collecting legal material through either manual literature search library and digital library as well as a descriptive analysis through the approach of legislation The results and is discussed: 1). Legal protection for farmers under the laws in Indonesia, in general: legislative policy of legal protection for farmers are not supported by legislation that is comprehensive, systemic and holistic, making it less guarantee legal certainty and justice for Farmers and business communities in the field of Agriculture; specifically: the provision of legal protection for traditional farmers do in the strategy to empower farmers, in the form of counseling and assistance in order to carry out: a. procedures for cultivation, post-harvest, processing, and marketing of the good; b. feasibility analysis; and c. partnership with business communities. 2). Policy on soil and agricultural land sufficient for farmers in Indonesia have to add a consolidation program in the series overall value of agricultural production by boosting agricultural land area policy does not favor the entrepreneurs.