ABSTRACT In the last two decades, some Javanese rice farmers have learned to be plant breeders with the help of Farmer Field Schools for Participatory Plant Breeding. However, they have experienced problems with seed and intellectual property laws primarily focused on the strengthening of the seed industry and compliance with development plans. A number of farmers have been prosecuted for experimenting with seeds, prompting a partly successful challenge to relevant provisions in Indonesia’s Constitutional Court. Subsequent legislative changes have restored some farmers’ rights, but also brought new reporting requirements and limitations. Using James Scott’s concept of “transformative state simplifications,” this article shows that legal challenges to regulations are just one strategy of self-help. The political reform process and possibility for constitutional challenges have opened up space for debates about how farmers can benefit from laws that seek to regulate their cultivars. The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and other developments are likely to intensify discussions about what precisely various laws mean by their encouragement of “small farmer varieties,” “food sovereignty,” and a “sustainable agricultural cultivation system.”

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农民植物育种者和印度尼西亚爪哇的法律

摘要 在过去的二十年里，一些爪哇稻农在参与式植物育种的农民田间学校的帮助下学会了成为植物育种者。然而，他们在种子和知识产权法方面遇到了问题，主要侧重于加强种子产业和遵守发展计划。许多农民因试验种子而被起诉，这促使对印度尼西亚宪法法院的相关规定提出了部分成功的挑战。随后的立法变化恢复了一些农民的权利，但也带来了新的报告要求和限制。使用詹姆斯斯科特的“变革性国家简化”概念，本文表明对法规的法律挑战只是一种自助策略。政治改革进程和宪法挑战的可能性为关于农民如何从试图规范其品种的法律中受益的辩论开辟了空间。《联合国农民权利宣言》和其他发展可能会加强关于各种法律鼓励“小农品种”、“粮食主权”和“可持续农业耕作制度”究竟意味着什么的讨论。