Founded in 1998 | Thousand Currents Partner since 2023
Serikat Petani Indonesia-Indonesian Peasant Union (SPI)
Strengthening peasant solidarity
Serikat Petani Indonesia-Indonesian Peasant Union (SPI) is the largest mass organization in Indonesia bringing together 12 peasant unions of the country. Formed in 1998 to defend small farmers and agricultural workers who are increasingly marginalized by mainstream development and agrarian policies, SPI’s mission is to strengthen peasant solidarity in order to achieve progressive agrarian reform and food sovereignty. Smallholder peasants, which account for 93% of all farmers in Indonesia, have an average land holding of 0.5 ha of land. Sidelined by commercial and industrial, export-oriented agriculture like palm oil, rubber, their land rights are under threat from market actors.
SPI members have over 1000 cooperatives that produce coffee, brown sugar, cooking oil, and rice. One of SPIs key contributions to the global food sovereignty has been its 17-year-long leadership in the proposal and ratification of the United Nationals Declaration of Peasants Rights.
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In Jakarta, the @SPIPetani held a demonstration outside the Ministry of Trade, protesting the unfair Agreement on Agriculture (of the #WTO) and a host of other free trade agreements that threaten peasant markets and peasant economy.
#MC13
Call for Endorsements to Build an Alternative: Members, social movements, civil society organizations, friends in academia and policy spaces, as well as those in governments, are invited to join us in the effort to build a framework! Follow the link:
#25TahunSPI
Panen padi #agroekologi hari ini (8/7) di Kawasan Daulat Pangan (KDP) #SPI di Desa Sinori, Kecamatan Merakurak, #Tuban, #JawaTimur dalam peringatan HUT SPI ke-25 dan Hari Koperasi Nasional ke-76.
Panen padi dilakukan Menteri @KemenkopUKM Bapak Teten Masduki Ketua Umum SPI @hspetani bersama Bupati dan Wakil Bupati Tuban, Ketua DPRD Kab. Tuban, Dinas Pertanian Jawa Timur, dan jajaran pemerintah kabupaten maupun provinsi lainnya.
