2011 National Legislative Program Priority: Legal Reform for Right to Food, Peasants’ and Fisherfolk’s Rights Protection
Since 2007, Indonesian Human Rights Committee for Social Justice (IHCS) together with several other civil organizations have been initiating legal reform on several Acts, namely; Act no 7 year 1996 on Food, Act no 31 year 2004 on Fishery (revised to Act no 45 year 2009) and Act no 27 year 2007 on Coastal and Islets Management.
This year, all the reform proposals are successfully entering the 2010 – 2014 National Legislative Programs (Prolegnas). There is also another proposal regarding agrarian reform and producers’ (peasant, fisherfolk and indigenous people) right to food, however because of administrative reason, the proposals could not be received by Legislative Body. In order to push these initiatives to be in 2011 Prolegnas Priority, it is important for the academics, legislators, legal reform initiators and government officials to unify perceptions regarding the importance of above acts.




