Agrarian Conflicts Plantations in North Sumatera

. Plantation agrarian conflict is an agrarian conflict that is quite prominent in the
area which is the center of plantations in north Sumatra. Agrarian conflicts can analyze
from Marxian and Weberian perspectives. The agrarian conflict in North Sumatra in the
period 1970-2000 the quantity and quality was the biggest agrarian conflict outside of
Java. The agrarian conflict in North Sumatra, is caused by the development and
expansion of plantation businesses; development of conservation and protection forests;
development of transmigration areas, and an increase in people who are "hungry for
land" as a result of life difficulties, narrowing of employment opportunities in both the
formal and informal sectors and the rise in layoffs. The agrarian conflicts of plantations
in North Sumatra can be identified as follows: agrarian conflicts arise because of the
government's denial of people's socio-economic rights; related to the effort of unilateral
manipulation and interpretation of the government and capital owners regarding the
State's Right to Control over land, use of instruments criminal law, intimidation and
violence through the mobilization of the apparatus against the people who fight and
claim their rights to land and in every agrarian conflict, the community is on the weak
side and has no bargaining.