The Dynamics of Paddy Land Legal Policy in Indonesia

This research is conducted to describe the history of paddy land legal policy in Indonesia. Indonesia is an agrarian country which has ever received an award as rice self-sufficiency country in 1984. Nevertheless, now Indonesia becomes rice importer as paddy land decreases. Thus, it needs to be examined from dynamics of legal policy protection side. This research is divided into three periods, the appearance of Basic Agrarian Law in 1960, the New Order period until 1999, and Reformation period until 2017. The used method is historical method. This research also investigates several problems that arise from the implementation of paddy land legal policy in Indonesia