Indonesian lawmakers pass land-conflict law, create agency under president

  • Indonesian lawmakers passed a law establishing a presidential agency for agrarian reform.
  • The agency will handle land planning, monitoring and agrarian-conflict resolution.
  • President Prabowo Subianto ordered land seizures from companies accused of violating forest-utilization rules.

Indonesian lawmakers passed a law on Tuesday to address land conflicts and inequality by establishing an agency reporting to the president. The agency will oversee land planning, monitoring and conflict resolution, while the law also calls for limits on the size of landholdings to promote more equal ownership. Indonesian minister overseeing agrarian affairs Nusron Wahid said technical rules on maximum and minimum holdings would follow. The measure covers overlapping claims involving forest areas, state assets and private land, and comes after President Prabowo Subianto ordered the seizure of land from miners and companies authorities said breached forest-utilization rules.

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