Corporate crime in expropriating land rights through intimidation and criminalization

Abstract

AbstractCorporations or business actors have an important role in increasing economic development, but in practice these corporations or business actors often commit business crimes that harm the community by means of intimidation and criminalization to seize land or land rights owned by the community. The purpose of this research is to combat corporate crime that intimidates and criminalizes land grabbing through Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participations (SLAPP). The approach method used is normative juridical, by presenting data analysis in a descriptive-qualitative manner. The result of this research is that: (1) Land Grabbing relating to the factors of the occurrence of the financial crisis, food crisis, energy crisis and global climate crisis; (2) The mode of appropriation of community land is carried out through use action RELAX to silence and stop public participation; and (3) Application of Anti Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participations (SLAPP) provide legal protection against resistance to public participation in defending their land rights.

Keywords

• Corporations
• criminalization
• expropriation
• intimidation
• land