1. Providing legal aid to farmers deprived of land

Whole families have been violently evicted by private companies from the land they lived on. When they try to defend their rights to the land, they are subjected to violent repression by security forces. Together with KPA, we will train 35 lawyers throughout the country. They will intervene to enable farmers to recover their land and defend them when they are faced with violations of human rights.

2. Training farmers in agricultural development

Once they manage to acquire land, KPA helps farmers develop plans for its use, so they can increase their incomes and live respectably from farming. Workshops and training will be organized with farmers on possibilities of land management and production. A practical manual in Bahasa will complete the training and allow all farmers to have access to advice on agricultural development. Farmers rally to be self-sufficient and feed their people!

3. Amend the agrarian reform law

Today, Indonesian laws on land reform do not allow the poorest of the population access to the country’s natural resources. KPA will mobilise agricultural and legal experts to draft a bill that protects the land rights of peasants, fishermen and native communities. To bring this law before the National Assembly, 150 MPs will be involved in two-day working sessions organized by KPA.

4. Inform urban communities on solutions to poverty

In order to develop an agriculture that provides food for the entire population, offers jobs to rural communities, and reduces poverty, urban populations must be involved. Landless farmers will explain their daily struggle for land and discuss their rights, at conferences and training courses organized by KPA for members of civil society and journalists. An information network will be established throughout the country so that the media can relay reliable and specific news on land issues.

Peasants organize themselves to work and feed their families!

Concrete targets

Establishment of 5 regional information centers and a national news agency specializing in land issues
35 trained lawyers who defend the rights of peasants and landless people
150 parliamentarians sensitized to issues of fair agrarian reform
50 peasant leaders who participate in workshops and training on agricultural development
3000 training and informational documents in Bahasa produced and distributed to farmers’ organizations
1 250 000 people will benefit, directly and indirectly, from this program

Mr Dadang

Testimony of Mr. Dadang, Cilawu farmer on the island of Java.

He received a support program from Frères des Hommes and KPA between 2004 and 2005. «A company had taken our land to set up tea plantations and had forbidden us to grow crops. Today, we have 500 families joining together to fight. The SPP (local peasant organization) and the KPA are helping us a lot. We grow crops on new land which was abandoned. We have occupied this land, even if its use is still not legalized. We have planted rice and vegetables, and our children are now going to school.»

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