A New Model of Access Control Based Corporate Social Responsibility as an Instrument to Solve a Plantation Dispute (A Study in Central and East Java, Indonesia)

Abstract

In this chapter, a new Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) model is introduced in land dispute resolution. Included in this model are  dispute over plantation ownership between local companies and people. The model provides a reward grant and basic-need facilities involving health and education, proven to solve the plantation land disputes in Batang Central Java and Blitar East Java province, which are referred to as Access Control-Based CSR. This model provides a reward grant to landless farmers in empowering their welfare instead of reclaiming of plantation land both in Batang Central Java and Blitar, East Java.

This chapter, which is based on an empirical or field research on state and private plantation companies, proposes an Access Control-Based CSR Model under a monitoring system to minimize the CSR abuse/manipulation in solving plantation land disputes. The strategy for plantation land dispute resolution by applying the Access Control-Based CSR Model cannot be generalized to be applicable in each different case; considering that the management system and risk of each plantation is different from one to another based on its situation and field, social-economy condition.

Keywords: Plantation land, Corporate Social Responsibility, Access Control