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The peasant communities of Tukdana in the province of Indramayu, a region located northwest of Jakarta (Indonesia), face continuous acts of violence and threats from a state-owned sugar company. In 2019, the company forced the peasants to accept a partnership agreement to plant sugarcane, which many opposed. SPI, the largest peasant organization in the country, arrived in the region in 2021 to support the peasant struggle, organize them, and resist through occupation and cultivation of the land, as well as engage in a legal battle for the recognition of peasant rights to the land. As part of the resistance, a participatory communication workshop was held with 15 young activists from the region and with international trainers to create communication materials, thus appropriating the narrative of the conflict from a perspective of the peasant struggle for land. <\/em><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text text_direction=”default”]\"\"[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”50″][vc_column_text max_width=”750″ text_direction=”default”]\n

Since 2021, the peasant communities of Tukdana in the province of Indramayu, a region located northwest of Jakarta (Indonesia), have faced continuous acts of violence and threats from the sugar factory PG Rajawali II, a subsidiary of the state-owned company PT Rajawali Nusantara Indonesia (PT-RNI), which bribes the police and uses its employees to attack peasants. For years, members of Serikat Petani Indonesia (SPI), the largest peasant organization in the country and a member of La V\u00eda Campesina, have occupied the lands adjacent to the sugar factory. They cultivate rice, vegetables, and fruit trees, raise sheep, and engage in other economic activities to survive. Occupying and labouring the vacant land is a form of peasant resistance.<\/p>\n

In 2019, some farmers decided to openly resist the sugar company’s plans to impose a partnership agreement that forced them to plant sugarcane for the company. As a result, they were harassed, their homes were burned, and their rice fields and mango trees were uprooted. “We used to plant rice here, initially feeling safe, but after two years they started harassing us. Every year they harass us, and our land is often destroyed. The mango trees that have been fruiting for five years have been knocked down,” explains Mr Damar, a farmer leader.<\/p>\n

The monoculture of sugarcane does not allow them to make ends meet or meet their basic needs since it only yields one harvest per year, and most of the profits go to the company. In fact, some farmers who accepted the agreement with the company have been trapped in a sea of debt. Furthermore, being unable to plant their own crops or obtain other food from the fields limits their food sovereignty.<\/p>\n

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Peasants who decided to openly resist the state-owned sugar company’s plans have been harassed, their houses burned, and their land destroyed.<\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”50″][vc_column_text text_direction=”default”]\"\"[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”40″][vc_column_text max_width=”750″ text_direction=”default”]\n

The land conflict dates back to 1976 when the Ministry of Agriculture declared the 12,000 hectares of land, previously considered a forest zone, as productive land. This was done through an exchange with the Forestry Ministry, to whom they had to hand over another 12,000 hectares of land in the same province to be considered forested. The Ministry of Agriculture then offered the new lands to a state-owned company called PTP, which began evicting peasant communities to establish a sugar factory. Some peasants chose to migrate, others opted to work for the sugar company, and others resisted.<\/p>\n

In 1996, the factory was acquired by the state-owned company PT Rajawali Nusantara Indonesia (RNI), which today operates ten sugar factories and 15 subsidiary companies involved in agribusiness, pharmaceuticals, and product distribution and trade. Although the company is owned by the Indonesian state, it operates like a private multinational corporation competing in a global capitalist system. It has a significant impact on the region’s ecosystem and consistently violates the rights of peasant communities in the name of “national development”.<\/p>\n

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In 1976, the government offered land considered forested to the state-owned company PTP to establish a sugar factory. Peasant communities lived on these lands: some decided to migrate, others to work for the factory, and others to resist.<\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”40″][vc_column_text text_direction=”default”]\n\n\t\t