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Government aims to certify all state lands by 2022
The state asset agency has budgeted Rp 9.72 trillion for this year, but has spent less than 50% of its public procurement budget for the last three years.
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Landowners in Sumbawa Besar, West Nusa Tenggara, show their newly issued land certificates in this July 30, 2018 file photo. (JP/Seto Wardhana)
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he Finance Ministry expects all government land to be certified by 2022 in an effort to protect state assets from legal disputes and to maximize their use for financial purposes.
According to the ministry, 46,725 tracts of land covering about 275,000 hectares – more than three times the size of Singapore – have not been certified.
“There are many state assets that are currently being disputed, and it could [all] be resolved if we have proper ownership certificates,” the ministry’s state assets director, Encep Sudarwan, said on Feb. 14, 2020 at a press briefing.
Aside from preventing land disputes, certifying state land was also necessary to enable the ministries or agencies that owned them to use the land for purposes such as collateral for raising funds.
The ministry has set a progressive target, with 15,426 state lands to be certified this year and 21,500 additional tracts to be certified by 2021.
The ministry is working with the National Land Agency (BPN) through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to accelerate the certification of state land for certifying the remaining 46,725 land tracts by 2022. It is also coordinating with other ministries and agencies to prepare sanctions for any delays in the process.
“We have signed an MoU with the BPN to achieve this year’s target. If the agency fails to achieve it, then there could be sanctions waiting,” Encep told The Jakarta Post.
