OTL Karangnunggal in Tasikmalaya Reclaims Its Land, Building the People's Economy 

The Karangnunggal Local Farmers Organization (OTL) in Karangnunggal Village, Tasikmalaya Regency, is fighting to defend its land from a company that has controlled approximately 215 hectares of land in the Karangnunggal Village area since 1996. Since then, the Karangnunggal Village community has been unable to access their land, even though they have cultivated it for generations. After a 14-year struggle, it was only in 2010 that they succeeded in physically reclaiming 105 hectares of the land.

The Karangnunggal OTL has 576 members, comprising 314 men and 262 women. With the land they have successfully acquired since 2010, the average farmer controls 0,5 hectares. Through this reclaimed land, they are slowly becoming self-sufficient in their food needs. However, this is not enough; with limited land ownership, they have not been able to produce superior commodities, which are crucial for increasing their income.

Based on these issues, the Karangnunggal Village community took the initiative to strengthen the agrarian reform movement by establishing a cooperative education and agricultural development center. They began by forming an implementation team and developing a plan. The cooperative education center and agricultural production development center were built on collective land owned by the Karangnunggal Village Community (OTL) and were carried out through mutual cooperation by its members. In addition to the building, the Karangnunggal Village Community (OTL) also established a demonstration plot for avocado and durian seedlings, capable of accommodating 10.000 seedlings.

With these two efforts, the Karangnunggal OTL community members have a strategy to strive for economic sovereignty through the creation of nursery demonstration plots and agricultural activities to reduce dependence on the market, as one step towards building a people's economic institution in the form of a cooperative. This strategy, in addition to its economic function, also has an ecological impact through the rehabilitation of LPRA land that is being fought for from the nursery demonstration plots that have been created. Furthermore, the profit-sharing system from cooperative management will provide alternative funds to strengthen the struggle for agrarian reform movements from the cooperative's economic activities and nurseries.

Furthermore, the development of cooperative education facilities and agricultural development has increased members' capacity in cooperative knowledge, agricultural techniques, and entrepreneurial management. This has also strengthened the regeneration of young farmers and students who are directly involved in educational activities. This has created a learning platform for agrarian struggles between farmer organizations, schools, and village communities.

The benefits were directly felt by 576 farmers (314 men and 262 women). The program impacted more than 4.000 SPP Tasikmalaya members in other regions through learning activities and experience exchange. The results of the activities created a collaborative model between farmer organizations and established a network of agrarian reform movements that can serve as examples in other regions.