DAMPAK KONVERSI LAHAN SAWAH DI JAWA TERHADAP PRODUKSI BERAS DAN KEBIJAKAN PENGENDALIANNYA

Abstract

The scarcity of land, especially sawah land is one of problems that cause to achieve rice
production more difficult for producing the staple food. Because of that, the Indonesian
status shifted from self sufficient to rice importer. The objective of this paper is to seek
the size of sawah land conversion and how is the implication to the rice production, and
how is the Government effort to control the sawah land conversion. By tabulation and
simple mathematic approach, the result showed that during 18 years 26, 9 thousand
hectares each year, occurred net sawah conversion in Java. During that period, net
accumulation of rice losses was about 40, 6 million ton or 2, 2 million ton per year as an
impact of sawah land conversion. The government effort to control sawah land
conversion just conducted by law enforcement approach, which is still looking for the
best way. So, the effectiveness of law enforcement to control sawah land conversion is
still relatively low.