Access Rights, Usage Rights, and Living Space of Coastal Communities: Agrarian Legal Literacy on Emerging Land in Widarapayung Wetan, Cilacap
Agrarian Legal Literacy on Emerging Land
Keywords:
Land, Use Rights, Living Space, Participatory ActiResearch, Access RightsAbstract
Emerging land in coastal areas is an agrarian resource that is vulnerable to conflict due to uncertain legal status and overlapping interests in spatial utilization. This situation occurs in Widarapayung Wetan Village, Cilacap Regency, where coastal communities' livelihood practices based on coconut farming and coconut sugar production are confronted with claims of use rights to state land. This study aims to analyze the relationship between community access rights, the implementation of use rights to emergent land, and the sustainability of living space, and to evaluate the contribution of Participatory Action Research (PAR) in improving coastal agrarian legal literacy. The study uses a qualitative participatory approach with a PAR design that involves the community as co-researchers (co researchers). Data collection techniques included in-depth interviews, participant observation, focus group discussions, licensing document audits, and participatory mapping. The results of the study indicate that the inequality in understanding agrarian law weakens the community's bargaining position in decision-making on coastal space utilization. The application of PAR contributed to increasing community legal literacy, strengthening collective capacity, and developing evidence-based advocacy instruments such as participatory maps and draft free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC) protocols. This study concluded that PAR-based agrarian legal literacy is effective in bridging the gap between legal norms and field practices, and supporting the sustainable protection of coastal communities' living spaces.
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