Jokowi: The Government Will Completely Complete Land Certificates

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo said the government would desperately complete the issuance of land certificates, which are estimated to remain 6 million plots of land by 2024.

"Next year, maybe in all of Indonesia there are still 6 million (uncertified land parcels), but hopefully it can also be resolved. We want to be desperately so that next year it can be completed," said the President at the handover of land certificates to the people of East Java Province in Sidoarjo, reported by ANTARA, Wednesday, December 27.

The President said that if the efforts to finalize the 6 million land parcel certificates are not completed next year, he expects it to be completed by 2025.

"But if it's multiplet, maybe (next year) it's still 6 million. This means that next year, all the land land in our country has already held (there is) all the certificates," said President Jokowi.

He said that in 2015 there were 126 million plots of land that had to be certified, but at that time only 46 million land parcels were certified, and the remaining 80 million plots of land had not been certified.

At that time the National Land Agency (BPN) could only issue 500 thousand land certificates per year, so that to complete the certificate for 80 million land parcels, it is estimated that it will take 160 years.

Therefore, since then the Joko Widodo administration has intensively encouraged the completion of land certificates throughout Indonesia, until it is estimated that in 2024 there will be only 6 million plots of land left whose certificates must be completed.

As for the handover of land certificates in Sidoarjo, the President handed over more than 3,000 land certificates from the agrarian asset/reforma redistribution category and complete systematic land registration (PTSL).

The Head of State stated the importance of ownership of land certificates as evidence of legal rights to land owned and prevent land conflicts.

The President said that the completion of certificates that had been carried out so far was the hard work of the district, provincial and central BPN.

Jokowi also advised people who want to use their land certificate as collateral at the bank, to calculate correctly whether they can pay loan interest at the bank or not.

The President admitted that he did not want the land certificate that had been given, instead the bank confiscated the day because the public could not afford to pay the loan interest.

"I don't want the government to work hard to prepare this, then the certificates for ladies and gentlemen will be confiscated by the bank. We don't want it. We want this certificate to be prosperous, ladies and gentlemen," he said.