Conversion of agricultural land is now one of the problems that exist in Indonesia.
With so many conversion of agricultural land to non agriculture caused by
population growth rate which every year progressing fast enough, so that
agriculture land in turn function to be utilized as building. Conversion of land
annually will threaten the agricultural sector and will affect food self-sufficiency
in Indonesia, especially sukoharjo regency, because every year the food
production area decreases causing the food production to decrease which will
impact on the inability to achieve food self-sufficiency. Sukoharjo Government as
one of the executor of the duty of the state, is obliged to provide for the food
needs of its people. In order to achieve sufficient food self-sufficiency, the district
government of Sukoharjo must be firm in applying the rules of land conversion
firmly and wisely. The purpose of this research is to know the conversion of
agricultural land in Sukoharjo regency and the relationship between agricultural
land conversion and food self-sufficiency by using descriptive research type based
on primary and secondary data. The results showed that Sukoharjo regency
experienced high land conversion, because the population growth rate that was not
balanced with the existing land in sukoharjo regency and sukoharjo regency has
not been able to self-sufficiency of food independently, which caused the
agricultural land continues to decline and food production decreased . Suggestions
for the Sukoharjo District Government to more firmly enforce the existing rules
and for the community not to be easy to release agricultural land to investors. And
give full support to the farmers in improving food production
