THE MECHANISM OF RICE MANAGEMENT THROUGH LEUIT BADUY LOCAL WISDOM TO MANIFEST FOOD SECURITY IN BANTEN PROVINCE

Abstract

Community food barn program tends to be unable to fulfill the need for food reserves, both national and regional scale. Therefore, it is important to make a proper mechanism of food management for people in Banten Province. This research is conducted to manifest food security in Banten through agricultural independency, especially rice as the main crop. The specific target is to propose a mechanism of rice management in Banten to manifest food security. This study proposed a leuit model in Baduy customary law to be developed as an alternative for food management in Banten based on local wisdom. The concept of leuit has been proven as an outstanding food security system for Baduy people. It is expected to be a good reference for the regional government policy to manifest food security in Banten. The approach method applied in this study is sociological normative law or empirical juridical law. The researcher studied leuit Baduy to be developed in modern society by conducting a study of community rice barns exist in Banten.