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Ministry to form land acquisition committee for infrastructure programs
Coordinating Infrastructure and Regional Development Minister Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono has tasked the Spatial Planning Ministry/National Land Agency with forming a land acquisition committee to support infrastructure programs.
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High-rise buildings are seen in the Sudirman Central Business District in South Jakarta on March 14, 2021. (AFP/Adek Berry)
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oordinating Infrastructure and Regional Development Minister Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono has tasked the Agrarian and Spatial Planning Ministry with forming a land acquisition committee.
“The first task is to immediately prepare a land acquisition committee to support infrastructure projects and development,” Agrarian and Spatial Planning Minister Nusron Wahid said after a meeting with Agus on Tuesday.
Nusron, who as the spatial planning minister also heads the National Land Agency (BPN), explained that the committee would focus on four key areas of infrastructure, the first being connectivity infrastructure, including projects like toll roads and ports.
Nusron added that these projects could be developed on state-owned land, abandoned land or community land, with compensation.
The second and third focus areas were infrastructure to support food self-sufficiency and energy self-sufficiency, respectively, while the fourth was for downstream industries.
The key focus areas align with President Prabowo Subianto’s top priorities, which the President specified during a four-day cabinet retreat at the Military Academy in Magelang, Central Java, days after assuming office.
Some 100 newly appointed or reappointed ministers and deputy ministers gathered for the retreat, participating in a series of briefings and back-to-back discussion sessions on topics from corruption prevention to bureaucracy.
