Optimization of agricultural land in Indonesia against land reform principles

In Indonesia, agricultural land shrinks every year by sixty thousand hectares. It isdue to rampant land conservation due to population growth. Agricultural land has a strategic function both socially, economically, and religiously for the agrarian Indonesian people. This study aims to examine the implementation and regulation of the determination of agricultural land area based on the Land Reform principle in Indonesia. The research method used is normative juridical using secondary data, which is analyzed through library research techniques.The study results suggest that the regulation of agricultural land's determination becomes urgent as a sustainable agricultural land in Indonesia. Indeed, the decision of agricultural land area is based on the principle of Land Reform regulated in Law Number 56/PRP/1960 concerningDetermination of Agricultural Land Area (UU PLTP). The existence of the PLTP Lawintended to protect farmers from accessing agricultural land as their line of business and avoid the concentration of ownership or control of agricultural land on sure capital owners. However, efforts to protect agriculture that have been regulated in the PLTP Law have reaped problems.The implementation of the PLTP Law has several obstacles, such as setting the minimum and maximum limits for agricultural land and the lack of supervision from the government. It makes small farmers slowly disappear, and big companies become increasingly powerful, which causes farmers to be unable to access agricultural land. On the other hand, the PLTP Law is a product of the old order, requires legal adjustments. Seeing this, the effort to regulate the determination of agricultural land is a must in responding to the challenges of food security and sovereignty in Indonesia. Efforts to revise the PLTP Law answer problems related to the availability of agricultural land adapted to the community's social conditions and pay attention to local wisdom. On the other hand, it is necessary to have a supervisory agency supervising the implementation of the determination of agricultural land in Indonesia. Thus, optimizing determining agricultural land can reduce the number of land conservation.