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Acknowledgments The Indonesian economic crisis and the end of the New Order regime in 1998 made the prominent land conflicts of the 1990s an even more urgent political issue, as one of the key areas driving demands for reform and democratization, including new initiatives toward decentralization and regional autonomy in the reformasi period. The origins of this study, an Australian Research Council grant titled “Land Tenure and Law in Indonesia: Implications for Livelihood, Community, and Environment,” coincided with the early reformasi period, which saw an extraordinary outpouring of popular protest over long-running land disputes, six of which are included as case studies in this book. The many Indonesian informants and NGOs who shared an interest in our early research began with the Consortium for Agrarian Reform (KPA), to which we are grateful for assistance on researching the 1960s land reform program in West Java, the campaign for law reform culminating in the passing of the Policy Decision of the People’s Consultative Assembly (TapMPR XI) in 2001, and more recently the passing of the new law on land acquisition. We also thank Akatiga, LBH Bali, LBH Cianjur, YLBHI Bandung, YLBHI Jakarta, YLBHI Malang, YLBHI Surabaya, Yayasan Koslata, and Yayasan Wisnu for their assistance. Workshops and conferences at Atmajaya University, Diponegoro University, Bogor Agricultural Institute (IPB), and Percik Foundation international seminars in Yogyakarta, Pekanbaru, and Salatiga saw many of the issues in this book discussed for the first time since the end of the New Order. Although individual contributors to this volume have acknowledged assistance in the research for their own chapters, we wish to mention the advice and assistance of a number of people over the many years it xii Acknowledgments has taken to bring this work to fruition: Greg Accaiolli, George Aditjondro , Dianto Bachriadi, Yudi Bachrioktora, Adrian Bedner, Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von Benda-Beckmann, Arief Djati, Noer Fauzi, Daniel Fitzpatrick, Keith Foulcher, Andik Hardiyanto, Joan Hardjono, Hardoyo, Herlambang Perdana Wiratraman, Franz Hüsken, Irwan, Arief Jati, Yudi Junaidi, Iwan Nurdin, Jan-Michiel Otto, Nancy Peluso, Pratikno, Gatot Rianto, Maria Ruwiastuti, Hilma Savitri, Jim Schiller, Usep Setiawan, Mohamad Shohibuddin, Nyoman Sirtha, Endriatmo Soetarto, Indro Tjahyono, Sediono Tjondronegoro, Leontine Visser, Ben White, Gunawan Wiradi, Roger Wiseman, and Yando Zacharia. Thanks to Bec Donaldson for editorial assistance. Special thanks to the Asia Research Centre at Murdoch University, which was home for the project, and the Van Vollenhoven Institute of Law, Governance and Development at Leiden University, which made available its excellent law library and hosted several of the contributors to the book. The editors wish to thank the Cornell University Southeast Asia Program for permission to republish revised and updated material from the article coauthored by Anton Lucas and Carol Warren entitled “The State, the People, and Their Mediators: The Struggle over Agrarian Law Reform in Post–New Order Indonesia” from Indonesia , no. 76 (October 2003): 87–124, and the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) for permission to republish materials from the chapter coauthored by Anton Lucas and Carol Warren entitled “Agrarian Reform in the Era of Reformasi” in Indonesia in Transition: Social Aspects of Reformasi and Crisis, edited by Chris Manning and Peter van Diermen (Singapore: ISEAS, 2000), 220–38, in chapters 1 and 10; reproduced here with kind permission of the publisher, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, . The editors also wish to thank Leiden University Press for permission to reprint a revised version of chapter 7 of G. O. Reerink, Tenure Security for Indonesia’s Urban Poor: A Socio-Legal Study on Land Decentralisation and the Rule of Law in Bandung (Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2011), 187–211, as chapter 9. ...

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