JAKARTA, MahkotaProperty.com.com – The Indonesian government plans to open 9 million hectares of agricultural land for 4.5 million marginal farmers in the agrarian reform program needs to be considered carefully assessed. It is intended to anticipate the opening of the lack of appropriate land and became an ecological disaster.
“We support the government’s decision to carry out agrarian reform, but it needs to be done properly and correctly. We must learn from the experience of ecological disaster when opening one million hectares of wetlands to rice fields in Central Kalimantan, “said Reader of Forestry Issues Thamrin School of Climate Change and Sustainability, Togu Manurutng when interviewed Kompas.com, in Jakarta, Thursday (12/03 / 2015).
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Togu said the government needs to provide disclosure of information related to the location of the region, status, and condition of the land in the opening 9 million hectares of agricultural land.
“There must be transparency of data on location, status, and condition of the land. Need to see the condition of the suitability of land cleared. Do not let the land cleared it is not suitable for agriculture, “added the man who is also a lecturer at the Faculty of Forestry, Bogor Agricultural University (IPB) and Chairman of Forest Watch Indonesia.
According Togu, land clearing should also pay attention to land suitability maps, so that the agricultural sector in the targeted food security programs can be performed optimally.
“It should be noted where land suitable for agriculture. Kan was also based on the high ground, soil type, slope, and climate. So it can be seen later on agricultural commodities what fits in there. So when planted optimal productivity, “said Togu.
Togu also expect the government to pay attention to the location of the distribution of marginal farmers in Indonesia. The goal, in order to maximize their use of land clearing by farmers and also tunakisma Guram (farmers who work the land belonging to another person by means of the results).
“Most (smallholders and tunakisma) right in Java. They can be prioritized but not necessarily by moving them to the outside of Java. Because in Java itself is still a lot of unused land. Instead of this land idle why not built so productive? “Said Togu.
