Following the Plantation: Law and Human Rights in Indonesia 1870-2020.

Land Labour and Plantations
Written By Tania Li

2021. Annual Van Vollenhoven Lecture, Leiden.

From the 1870 Agrarian Law through the 1960 Land Law, the emergence of the New Order and the 2020 pro-investment Omnibus Law, plantations have been central to the formation of Indonesia’s legal regimes. Plantations also entrench race-like social divides at the heart of the social order and install political relations that are antithetical to human rights and enfranchised citizenship.

Tania Li
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