LEGAL IMPLICATION OF AGRICULTURAL LAND OWNERSHIP BY ABSENTEE IN SUB-DISTRICT OF TANJUNG REGENCY OF NORTH LOMBOK

Wiwin Istiningrum, Dr. M. Arba, SH., M.Hum, Dr. Widodo Dwi Putro, SH., M.Hum

Abstract:

One of the land reform programs is the absentee prohibition of agricultural land. However, in reality there are still many people who have absentee farmland in Tanjung Sub-district of North Lombok, so in practice the regulation on the prohibition of absentee farming cannot be applied effectively. This study aims to find out why the ownership of agricultural land in absentee is prohibited.

This study uses a social-legal method of research that emphasizes the behavior of individuals or communities in relation to the law. All primary and secondary data are classified with issues relevant to the problem and then analyzed qualitatively descriptively.

The result of research on the prohibition of farm ownership in the absentee philosophically that the agricultural land must be owned by the people who reside in the Tanjung sub district and the land must be used and used for agriculture, so that it can improve the welfare of farmers, farmers and farm laborers in the district of Tanjung. The legal basis for the prohibition of absentee/guntai landholding is Article 10 of the Basic Agrarian Law (UUPA), in this article is contained a principle requiring the owners of agricultural land to actively work or cultivate farmland. As the implementer of Article 10 of the BAL is the Government Regulation (PP) No 224 of 1961 concerning the implementation of land distribution and compensation and Government Regulation No. 41 of 1964 concerning the amendment and addition of Government Regulation No. 224 of 1961 on the implementation of the division land and compensation. Sociological Foundation, Although the ownership of farm land in absentee is prohibited but in fact in sub-district there are many people who own agricultural land but live outside the district of Tanjung Tanjung and some live outside the province. Likewise, the economic situation of the people after selling their agricultural land does not get better than before and even decreased.

 

Keywords: prohibition, ownership, land, absentee

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