The Indonesian land administration system
Anshari, Rizal
Since its independence in 1945, Indonesia has experienced two systems of land administration. Those are land administration based on the dualism land law, customary law and Dutch law which was effective until 1960, and based on the Basic Agrarian Law which is effective until now. On the basis of the Basic Agrarian Law, the land registration as the core component of the land administration, has been conducted based on the Government Regulation Number 10 of 1961 and then be replaced by the Government Regulation Number 24 of 1997. The later regulation has comprehensively developed the system with its goals are to : (1) give legal certainty for the land owners, (2) provide land administration in order, and (3) to provide land information. By implementing the land registration, currently there is 33.665.125 land parcels registered. It is about 39 % of the total estimated land parcels in Indonesia. However, there are still some problems to be overcome. Unification into a single nationally cadastral mapping system is one of others, whereas the existed cadastral maps are still in the paper based format. The other problem is the impact of huge disaster in Aceh. To overcome the problems, it needs the application of the newest technology in survey and mapping as well as the more involvement of community.
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