Land Conversion and Its Control Strategy

The focus of this paper is the land conversion from agricultural to non-agriculture. The significance of this focus is first, the argument from the realm of law or legislation that land conversion is restricted and even prohibited. Second, empirical domains, though restricted and prohibited, but in practice, there is always land conversion. There appears to be a gap between "das Sollen" and "das Sein," between "law in the books" and "law in action," or between "convicted" and "actual." This gap is assumed to have negative implications. The negative implications include not achieving community welfare, weak food security, and tenacity. There are two problems raised in this paper. First, why does land conversion from agricultural to non-agricultural take place? Second, what is the strategy of controlling the conversion of agricultural land to non-agricultural land? The study was conducted used a socio-legal approach and normative approach with a social theory about the law. From the theoretical analysis, it is found that there is a true conversion of land with various factors causing the farmers to have only narrow land. Second, the control strategy is through a policy of regulation and policy in the praxis level. The need for efforts to control land conversion to productive agricultural land is recommended, and there is a need for a strategy to control land conversion.