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View all search resultsOnce a private firm enters a small island to build its business, local residents often lose access to the island where they usually fish or dock their ships. The issue has become a complaint of local islander communities amid the brouhaha surrounding Indonesian islands being sold online.
Indonesian civic organizations have pushed President Prabowo Subianto’s administration to fulfill his campaign promise to immediately resolve land conflicts across the archipelago, suggesting that the President take direct action to bypass bureaucratic muddle on the issue.
A government minister has dismissed speculation as to possible links between dubious land documents and a fire that broke out at the Agrarian and Spatial Planning Ministry/National Land Agency (BPN) building in South Jakarta just before midnight on Saturday.
A meeting with House Commission IV overseeing maritime affairs on Tuesday concluded with a time frame of 20 days for the ministry to conduct a follow-up investigation to determine the origins of the illegal 30-kilometer-long structure.
The next government needs to prioritize spatial planning and land management reform to reflect the realities on the ground, by transferring the current forestry ministry's land management authorities under the agrarian affairs ministry as the sole administrative body for spatial planning, including land use and tenure.
Analysts have suggested that Jokowi’s cabinet shake-up is part of an effort to consolidate power in his final year in office, particularly given concerns about cracks having formed in the cabinet before the election.
The government should have done more to issue land certificates for residents of traditional villages on Rempang Island in Batam, Riau Islands, while preventing incitement of fear when handling protests against the eco-city project, the Indonesian Ombudsman has warned.
Of 17 government agencies, local administrations and city-owned companies selected for top performance, BPOM and the East Java provincial government won the outstanding achievement award for their responses to public complaints, their use of technology to improve the responses as well as for providing legal framework that would allow the response system to be sustainable.
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