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Coordinating Economic Minister Darmin Nasution and Agrarian and Spatial Planning Minister Sofyan Djalil talk after attending a limited Cabinet meeting at the Presidential Office in Jakarta on Feb. 16 (Antara/Wahyu Putro A)
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resident Joko “Jokowi” will issue in the coming weeks a presidential regulation on land distribution as part of his administration’s agrarian reform program to improve the welfare of farmers, Coordinating Economic Minister Darmin Nasution said on Sunday.
The presidential regulation is one of several rules that will be the legal basis of the land reform program, the minister said.
“We need to have a legal basis for any release of land, which will be subject of the agrarian reform,” said Darmin as reported by kontan.co.id, adding that other rules include organization of land reform and the role of the local government.
(Read also: Government slows plan to impose taxes for idle land)
As part of the land reform program, the government plans to legalize or to certify 4.5 million hectares of land and to redistribute 4.5 million hectares of forest land. Clusters of land will be distributed to groups of people.
“The land to be distributed may be unused land with the status of land for business use (HGU) and other unused land,” said Agrarian and Spatial Planning Minister and National Land Body head Sofyan A. Djalil. (bbn)
