THE DINAMICS OF THE POLICY PROCESS FOR THE PROTECTION OF SUSTAINABLE FOOD AGRICULTURAL LAND (A CASE STUDI IN BANDUNG REGENCY)

• Main Author: Ratna Pratiwi, Eka
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/79629
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

The Bandung Regency as one of the Nation Food Granary Areas in RPJMN 2020-2024, has agriculture’s potensial in almost all regions. In 2019, The Bandung Regency Government made efforts to protect agricultural land by establishing 31.046,74 ha of Sustainable Food Agricultural Land in Regional Regulation. However the Bandung Regency Government's endeavours to safeguard prospective agricultural land continue to encounter several hindrances. The Regional Policy outlined in Bandung Regency Regional Regulation Number 1 of 2019, which aims to protect sustainable agricultural land for food production, must provide the desired protection level. Despite the Ministry of ATR/BPN's engagement in designating Protected Agricultural Land, the maximisation of agricultural land protection remains unattainable. . This study employed a single qualitative case study approach to delineate secondary data encompassing regulations concerning agricultural land protection, planning and spatial documents, and literature reviews. The researchers selected this approach to understand the context comprehensively and elucidate the dynamics of the policy process to safeguard sustainable agricultural land in the study area. The research was analysed using Policy Theory Reconstruction, Stakeholder Analysis, and Conflict Identification methods. This study presented three methods of analysis that frequently cause conflict, including the policy narratives/discourses affecting the policy process, the role of stakeholders in influencing the policy process, and the identification of sources of differences. The study’s findings revealed that the policies of Bandung Regency should be seen as prioritising agriculture as a priority development project. The lack of alignment and integration between existing planning documents and spatial planning documents, along with discrepancies in their influence, results in the inability to protect rice fields, even though they are mentioned in planning documents or separate Regional Regulations, unless they are also included in the Spatial Planning document, LP2B. Furthermore, the findings from the stakeholder analysis of four key stakeholders involved in developing LP2B protection policies, there are DPRD, Dinas Pertanian, BAPPELITBANGDA, and DPUTR, indicate that the players crucial to protecting LP2B have minimal and restricted power in spatial policy. Therefore, the policies of LP2B present a significant challenge when it comes to entering the spatial realm. The responsibility for this dynamic does not lie simply at the regional level; numerous policies at the central level also have a considerable impact. The central government needs to improve its responsibility to establish clear legal guidelines for implementing LP2B in the regions, evidenced by the lack of consistency in establishing primary data for LP2B determination in various published laws. Furthermore, the regions need assistance to implement the conditions for incentives. It is unfeasible to expect farmers to have a contiguous land area of at least 25 hectares to qualify for this incentive. The Job Creation Law directly impacts LP2B by facilitating licencing procedures to stimulate investment growth in Indonesia. The law repealed the regulation about the planning, utilisation, control, and collaboration in the spatial planning of rural regions, previously established in the Spatial Planning Law, to protect areas designated for food cultivation. Stakeholders can use the results of this study to identify policy narratives that have an impact, stakeholders who can intervene, and conflicts that arise in preserving sustainable agricultural land for food production. This research has the potential to enhance the examination of policies aimed at protecting Sustainable Food Agricultural Land, which is strongly associated with meeting food requirements and implementing diverse policies. The concluding remarks of this research can serve as a point of reference or comparison for comparable studies conducted in other focus areas with agricultural potential characteristics.