Here's The AHY Way For Ulayat Land Data Well, Minimize Land Disputes

BANDUNG - Minister of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning/Head of the National Land Agency (ATR/BPN) Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono (AHY) ensured that the government would properly record customary land in Indonesia.

These efforts are to minimize the occurrence of land disputes that have occurred so far.

"We (the Ministry of ATR/BPN) are trying to be convincing after being identified well with these customary lands, the border, the boundaries are clear. Then the local government, provincial governments, district and city governments also provide recognition or legitimization of indigenous peoples in their area. After that, we were only able to make measurements, registrations and in the end, everything was recorded properly," said AHY during the first international conference on the Registration of Ulayat Land in Indonesia on September 4-7 in Bandung City, West Java, Wednesday, September 4.

With good data, he hopes that there will be no more disputes over customary legal land in the future.

"With this, we hope that there will be no more disputes in the future. Because the name is land, yes, people are growing, the population is increasing, there could be overlapping," he said.

AHY explained, there is confusion in regulating customary land in line with indigenous peoples who have usually occupied the area for a long time.

"Because the indigenous people are already on its earth, in its homeland it has been decades, hundreds of years. Of course, it has hope that anyone who is still a part and there are descendants of blood from ethnicities, whatever certain traditional identities can fight for their rights," he said.

Meanwhile, the Director General of Land Rights and Registration Determination (Dirjen PHPT) Asnaedi admitted that he had carried out an inventory and identification of the Land of Ulayat from 2021 to 2023.

As for 2023, the potential for the existence of the Land of Ulayat with a plot of land of around 3.8 million hectares (ha) has been obtained in 16 provinces of inventory and identification of customary land.

"The 16 provinces include West Sumatra, North Sumatra, South Sumatra, Riau, Riau Islands, Jambi, Aceh, Central Kalimantan, East Kalimantan, South Kalimantan, West Kalimantan, Bali, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), Central Sulawesi, Papua and West Papua," he said.