Legal Protection for Plasma Farmers in Partnership Agreements Between Cooperatives and Palm Oil Plantation Companies

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10.2991/978-2-38476-531-7_59How to use a DOI?

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Agreement; Plantation; Partnership; Company and Plasma Farmers

Abstract

In an effort to improve the national economy in the palm oil plantation sector, it is necessary to involve small businesses in the surrounding areas of plantation companies through partnership programs. In partnerships, a legal relationship occurs between cooperatives, which represent plasma farmers, and palm oil plantation companies, where the two have differences in terms of human resources (HR), business capital, and managerial skills. This study uses a normative juridical research method that takes materials related to the problem based on the literature so that an analysis is drawn that answers the problem. Therefore, it is concluded that there is a difference in position that results in weak efforts to accommodate their interests in partnership agreements, so that the legal product created gives rise to injustice. Therefore, to ensure proportionality and balance in partnership agreements made by cooperatives and plantation companies, appropriate legal protection is needed as a legal cover in these legal relationships, especially protection for plasma farmers as parties in a weak position. Although plasma farmers form cooperatives as a forum to represent their interests in the partnership, with this position there is a possibility that the interests of plasma farmers themselves cannot be accommodated in the legal relationship. Therefore, the government’s role in legal protection efforts, not only focuses on cooperatives as representatives of plasma farmers. But it also focuses on the balance between the legal relationship between cooperatives and plantation companies, namely plasma farmers.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Rudy Hartono
AU  - Elvira Fitriyani Pakpahan
AU  - Heriyanti Heriyanti
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/01/03
TI  - Legal Protection for Plasma Farmers in Partnership Agreements Between Cooperatives and Palm Oil Plantation Companies
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Forum on Psychology, Law, and Education (IFPLE 2025)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 606
EP  - 616
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-531-7_59
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-531-7_59
ID  - Hartono2026
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