Ulrich Löffler, (1996):
Land Tenure Developments in Indonesia

9.2 Training and Research

• One important field of development activities is training and research in the area of land tenure. To this belong amongst others:
• Short and medium-term courses and / or training on the job in Indonesia or overseas in specific fields for personnel from the BPN, MoF etc. These courses could be in the areas of rural land consolidation, urban land consolidation, GIS, etc.
• Education and training for members of NGO’s, foundations and community organizations in areas such as organizational development and legal consultation.
• Preparing and making available information already available to international organizations, various authorities, religious institutions and foundations so that decision makers can digest and implement it.
• Conducting electronic conferences on specific topics (administrative, legislative, management aspects) with relevant national and international research and decision-making bodies (BPN, MoF, MoA, ICRAF, CIFOR, CASER, universities - in particular the agricultural, forestry and law faculties), donors, NGO’s etc.) for information exchange and the identification of main focal points of research as well as the investigation of starting-points for the aimed promotion of national and international research projects.
• Promotion of research and training in region specific adat law and land policy.
• Consultation for curriculum development and establishment of land and resource tenure in the curriculum for agricultural, forestry and law students in the S 1 (Bachelor level) and S 2 (Masters level) of education, e.g. in the agriculture faculty (IPB), forestry faculty (UNMUL); build up of a study programme, "Land and Resource Tenure".
• The joint development and making available of a text book and didactic material for the dissemination of knowledge in the area of resource tenure in English and Indonesian language.
• Support for above average candidates in further qualification, for example in the study programmes of the BMZ / GTZ "Cooperation of Universities in Postgraduate Education and Research Programme": "Integrated Tropical Agriculture and Forestry Sciences" (Bogor / Göttingen) or "Spatial Planning for Regions in Growing Economies" (Manila / Dortmund).
• The promotion and fostering of graduates who have, for example, finished a non-degree or degree course (in Germany, but also in Wageningen, Ghent, etc.) in the area of resource tenure (regional planning (e.g. SPRING Dortmund), law, agriculture, forestry (e.g. CeTSAF Göttingen) and have become employed in the own countries in key positions in Ministries, parliaments, research institutes and universities. Identification of these graduates can take place with the support of the universities, the DAAD regional office in Jakarta and the Jerman Alumni Association in Jakarta.
• Identification and further qualification of Indonesian consultants.