On the morning of March 12, the participants went on a field visit to Bekasi District in West Java Province, which is 1.5 to 2 hours away from Jakarta (by bus). The area is a paddy field area around 300 hectares (mostly owned by rich people living in the cities).
By Ika Krishnayanti, Bina Desa February 21, 2007 Jakarta, Indonesia — Mass actions delivered by civil societies to protest World Trade Organization (WTO) have been spread out all over the world. The Director General of WTO Pascal Lamy’s visit in Jakarta last February was the most welcome by various protests conducted by several peasant organizations, […]
An event entitled “Seminar-Workshop on Developing AFA’s Advocacy on Sustainable Agriculture†was held in Kusuma Agrowisata Hotel, Batu City, Malang, Indonesia last September 11-17, 2006. The event was hosted by Aliansi Petani Indonesia or API (AFA’s member in Indonesia) and Bina Desa, API’s strategic NGO partner. The seminar-workshop resulted in a draft outline of AFA’s […]
In order to learn more about the situation of Indonesian farmers, specifically their initiatives on SA, the participants to AFA’s seminar-workshop on sustainable agriculture went to Tlego Makmur, a farming village near Mt. Semeru, the highest mountain in East Java, last September 13, 2006.
After a careful documentation of the land reclaiming struggle of farmers in Indonesia, peasant organization API and support organization Bina Desa launched a book on land reclaiming entitled “Land to the Tiller: Initiating Land Use in Pasir Randu” during the seminar-workshop on sustainable agriculture last September 15, 2006 in Batu City, Malang Indonesia. Case Documentation: […]
Adapted from the video documentary version of the book Land reclaiming is an inseparable part of the agrarian reform movement in Indonesia that the state has regarded an illegal act until now. It arose because of the failure of agrarian reform implementation in the country since it became independent. Most often, the peasants who reclaim […]
Since 2003, around 10 peasants in Kediri regency have either been sued in court or put in jail after being accused by PT Bisi, a seed company, of illegal breeding and stealing of company seeds. The Aliansi Petani Indonesia (API) has been documenting these cases involving their peasant members.
History The issue over transgenic seeds stems from farmers confusion as to why they had to buy the corn seeds every time they want to plant corn. Plants were created by God and no man should not claim them as his/hers. The high cost of the seeds and the high cost of planting adds to […]
