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Govt considers offering land amnesty for millions of hectares

The House of Representatives has suggested a land amnesty to legalize ownership over millions of hectares of land with no right to cultivate (HGU) and to collect more state revenue.

Ni Made Tasyarani (The Jakarta Post)
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Govt considers offering land amnesty for millions of hectares Staple food production: Farmers harvest rice in Singosari, Malang, East Java, in this aerial photo taken on Sept. 25, 2024. (Antara/Muhammad M)

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he House of Representatives has suggested offering a land amnesty to legalize ownership over millions of hectares (ha) of land with no right to cultivate (HGU) and to collect more state revenue.

Rifqinizamy Karsayuda, head of House Commission II, said an amnesty would encourage de facto landowners to register their plots and obtain certificates, which in turn would make more objects subject to taxation and therefore could bolster state revenue.

“And this is important for all of us. If Commission XI introduces a tax amnesty, I think Commission II will introduce a land amnesty,” he said at the House of Representatives legislative complex in Jakarta on Monday, as quoted by news agency Antara.

Rifqinizamy explained that the land amnesty would target people with years of unregistered ownership of land without taking into account their past records.

He went on to say that illegal land owners had “enjoyed not paying taxes, using their influence and power [to avoid taxes]”.

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Rifqinizamy said illegal landowners would be given a six-month to one-year deadline to have their plots registered, before the state would take ownership of the lands "for the national interest".

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