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Extra funds to be alloted for land certification
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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. (Antara/Wahyu Putro A)
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grarian and Spatial Planning Minister Sofyan Djalil has said that his ministry will be able to certify 5 million plots of land this year as targeted by President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo as the Finance Ministry will disburse extra funds for the program.
“About the funding, Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati has agreed there will be additional funds in June,” said Sofyan as reported by kontan.co.id on Friday.
Only Rp 1.4 trillion (US$104.94 million) for certification has been allotted in the 2017 state budget. Sofyan said previously that the funds were enough only for the certification of 2 million plots of land, while President Jokowi insisted that the ministry certify 5 million plots of land.
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Sofyan said his ministry needed Rp 2.8 trillion to achieve the government's target.
The problem is that the revised state budget is usually approved by the House of Representatives in September, Sofyan said.
“If the money is disbursed in September, it will be very late. Therefore, I have convinced the coordinating economic minister and the finance minister that we need the money,” Sofyan said, adding that land certification required time for mapping, measuring, registration and certification.
He said that of the 130 million plots of land in the country, only 46 million had been certified.
Coordinating Economic Minister Darmin Nasution assured that land certification would continue even though the state budget had not been revised. “There will be bridging funds to assure that land certification can continue,” he added. (bbn)
