Three farmers from Sidondo I Village, Sigi Biromaru Subdistrict, Sigi Regency, Central Sulawesi, were criminalized by the Forest Security Operation Team of the Sulawesi Regional Environmental and Forestry Law Enforcement and Security Patrol Team of the Lore Lindu National Park (TLL). This was allegedly related to resistance to the eviction of farmers' land at the location.

The three farmers arrested by officers on December 11, 2023 were Farid alias Papa Fangky, Arwin alias Papa Angga and Emon alias Papa Dafa.

Chairman of the Agrarian Reform Movement Alliance, Mohammad Ali, said that the arrest was improcedural because the arrest warrant was only sent on December 13, which was two days after the three farmers were arrested without any news at all to the family.

"The investigation process was also carried out without giving the three people the right to request and obtain legal assistance," Ali told reporters, Sunday (17/12/2023).

According to him, this is not the first act of violence and criminalization in the Lore Lindu National Park area. However, the criminalization this time is a complement to the bad record of human rights violations that have been carried out by BBTNLL against the people around the TNLL area.

In 2013, there was an arrest of one farmer in Poso District on charges of illegal logging. In 2014, 13 dongi-dongi farmers were criminalized on charges of illegal logging. Then in 2016 14 Dongi-dong farmers were shot at while preparing for a demonstration demanding the boundary of TNLL.

"We consider that the origin of these acts of violence and criminalization in the TNLL area is BBTNL's claim to the land and territory of the people around the TNLL area, which has long been disputed by the people around TNLL," he said.

Moreover, long before the presence of BBTNLL, the area was not empty land but land that had been cultivated and utilized by the surrounding people. The utilization is still going on until now.

Ali said, the presence of BBTNLL with a very large land acquisition of 215,733.70 hectares has not been added to the various plantation licenses that are also located around the circumference of the TNLL area.

In addition, the arrest of three people is contrary to the Agrarian Reform program. The state is also considered increasingly unserious in carrying out the agrarian reform program that has been launched.

"The Agrarian Reform programmed by Jokowi is False Agrarian Reform because it reinforces the monopoly on land in the hands of landlords on the one hand and increasingly excludes people's rights to land on the other," he explained.