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BPN grants ownership of city land to individual: Official
The head of the Jakarta Finance and Asset Management Board has said it was the State Land Agency (BPN) that granted a full ownership certificate (SHM) of land owned by the Fisheries, Agriculture and Food Security Agency (KPKP) to Toeti Noeziar Soekarno.
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The head of the Jakarta administration’s Finance and Asset Management Board, Heru Budi Hartono, works in his office at City Hall. (kompas.com/Alsadad Rudi )
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he head of the Jakarta Finance and Asset Management Board, Heru Budi Hartono, has said it was the State Land Agency (BPN) that granted a full ownership certificate (SHM) of land owned by the Fisheries, Agriculture and Food Security Agency (KPKP) to Toeti Noeziar Soekarno.
Later, Toeti sold the land to the Jakarta City Housing Agency.
Heru said the BPN had refused to upgrade the KPKP’s ownership status of the land from a customary title, locally known as a girik, to the full-ownership certificate since the land had been the subject of dispute since 1996.
“I wonder why the BPN could grant full ownership status of the land owned by the KPKP to the individual,” Heru said at City Hall on Tuesday, adding that the Housing Agency had never discussed the land ownership with him before purchasing the land.
But Heru, who was appointed by Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama to pair with him as a Jakarta gubernatorial deputy candidate in the 2017 election, said that the full ownership status of the land had encouraged the city housing agency to acquire it because the agency thought that the land was no longer owned by the city.
Previously, Ahok had criticized Heru’s office for poor management of the assets owned by the city, which he claimed sparked misuse of those assets by certain people.
In response, Heru said that each working unit under the Jakarta administration was responsible for the assets it controlled.
“The monitoring of assets should be the responsibility of each working unit, not just of the financial and asset management board. It is nonsense to think the board can monitor thousands of assets by itself,” Heru said. (bbn)
