The study on Indonesia’s land conflict management through the concept of governance is very interesting and challenging. Moreover, in Indonesia, the use of the concept of governance to analyze conflict cases is very rare. Therefore, this study recommends four further research agendas particularly related to the discourses of partial and impartial governance in land conflicts.
a. The field findings relating to the role of gray actors in exacerbating land conflicts in Lampung has elicited further academic research questions. In particular, it would be useful to understand how their little documented activities directly influence the governance interactions in land conflict management at the local level. Research into this issue would possibly reveal some of the causes of the low quality of local governance in managing land conflicts in many areas of Indonesia.
b. This study also identified the political/sociology dimension of governance interactions in Indonesia’s land conflict management that demonstrate the domination of powerful actors, namely, that of the political economic oligarchies. However, it would be useful to find more detailed and specific information regarding the influence of these oligarchic networks in land conflict management. Therefore, it is urgent to undertake a research that focuses on tracing the anatomy of the contemporary network of oligarchies in Indonesia’s land conflict management.
c. The research found that there is spiral of violence created by the governance actors and government policy. Further academic exploration of this would be able to lay the groundwork by which to discover more peaceful mechanisms for resolving these issues.
d. As one of the first of its kind, this study focused on qualitative research into the issues involved in partiality, and impartiality, governance. However, it would be useful to conduct more quantitative assessments of the effects of partiality in land governance by using a standard measurement method.
Therefore, research on impartiality in politics using quantitative
measurements would be likely to significantly contribute to the progress of governance in Indonesia.
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