Land for traditional and local community units as well as those who depend entirely on the land (farmers and tenant farmers) is an “asset” that holds the main control in their lives. Land is not seen solely as a commodity (a product that can be traded), but for them, land has a physical and spiritual bond that cannot be separated, due to interdependence as well as historical and cultural processes that follow. Equating land as an asset with a commodity would be the same as erasing various structural and spiritual bonds rooted in the land for them.

Various land issues often occur, which then require the state to play an active role in finding solutions/ways out. The main problem of land ownership, then attempted to be resolved by the state through the formulation of the “AGRARIAN REFORM” program, both through redistribution and legalization of assets that have been traditionally owned, which essentially aims to reduce inequalities in land ownership in order to create justice, address agrarian disputes, and conflicts. Several concrete steps have been taken by the head of the Sigi District in implementing this program, but the implementation obstacles are also evident. Similarly, with the Poso district, for example, which also faces challenges in implementing the Agrarian Reform policy with the presence of the Land Bank Agency which has one of the authorities related to providing land for Agrarian Reform.

The overlapping authority issues that significantly impact the To Pekurehua indigenous community in the Napu Valley, Poso Regency, as well as the Oloboju and Pombewe communities in Sigi Regency, were discussed in theMulti-Stakeholder Seminar and Dialogue for Accelerating Agrarian Reform in Central Sulawesi on January 25, 2024, at the Best Western Hotel Palu. This dialogue was attended by various speakers, including:

1. Assistant I to the Governor of Central Sulawesi, Dr. Fahrudin D. Yambas, representing the Governor of Central Sulawesi. The speaker’s points of discussion include: there are still many overlapping land ownership issues that harm the community, hence Agrarian Reform in Central Sulawesi needs to be promptly carried out.
2. Regent of Sigi, Mohammad Irwan Lapatta. The speaker’s points of discussion include: (1) The Sigi Regional Government has long been committed to agrarian reform by forming the Sigi GTRA and conducting participatory mapping of TORA objects in villages; (2) The Regional Government is confused about the continuation of Agrarian Reform with the presence of the Land Bank; (3) The Sigi Regional Government states that the agrarian reform regulations through the Land Bank are more complicated because the land does not directly return to the community, while the Regional Government’s priority is the Acceleration of Agrarian Reform.
3. Head of the PMD Office of Poso Regency, Frits Sam Purnama, representing the Regent of Poso. The speaker’s points of discussion include: (1) The Poso Regional Government acknowledges the presence of communities with hereditary rights to the land in the former HGU land of PT Sandabi; (2) Agrarian Reform in the form of recognition/legalization of community land needs to be promptly carried out; (3) The needs of the community need to be prioritized in agrarian reform; (4) The presence of the Land Bank confuses the Regional Government because it makes investments a central matter, while the region is not involved.
4. Chairman of the BPD of Pombewe Village,. The speaker’s points of discussion include: (1) The community has been suffering and impoverished for decades due to the presence of the HGU of PT Hasfarm, and hopes that after the end of the HGU of PT Hasfarm, the land will immediately return to the community communally through agrarian reform; (2) The community and the Sigi Regional Government through GTRA Sigi have agreed on the subject and object data of TORA with a joint farming scheme (communal land); (3) The sudden appearance of the Land Bank posting signs on community land does not respect the aspirations of agrarian reform of the community and the local government; (4) Rejecting the