JAKARTA - The East Java Provincial Government (Pemprov) emphasized the certification of 2,532 wakaf land and places of worship as a strategy to strengthen legal certainty, as well as to reduce the potential for agrarian conflicts that often arise due to unclear ownership status.
"There is legal certainty from all land areas on which there are buildings, whether they belong to institutions, universities, schools, waqf bodies, and of course places of worship," said East Java Governor Khofifah Indar Parawansa in a statement, Sunday, quoted by Antara.
Khofifah explained that agrarian disputes have occurred for a long time in religious, social, and educational assets because they do not have valid proof of ownership, so they are prone to claims, functional changes, and prolonged conflicts in society.
"Certification of wakaf land and places of worship is an instrument to protect the assets of the community so that mosques, prayer rooms, churches, temples, monasteries, shrines, boarding schools, madrasahs, and other religious facilities can be managed sustainably," he said.
Of the total 2,532 certificates that have been issued, 2,484 are waqf land certificates, 24 church certificates, 18 temple certificates, and three vihara certificates.
In addition, there are 69 use rights certificates belonging to the East Java Provincial Government and 747 use rights certificates belonging to the district/city governments.
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According to Khofifah, throughout 2025, the issuance of new certificates of wakaf land and places of worship in East Java has reached 15,321 fields as part of systematic efforts to prevent agrarian conflicts early on.
He emphasized the importance of strengthening the role of the nadzir so that the management of wakaf land is carried out professionally, transparently, and accountable, so that the benefits of wakaf can be felt more widely by the community.
The Governor of East Java also encouraged the acceleration of certification in areas where the achievement of wakaf land and places of worship has not reached 70 percent, and appreciated the areas that have exceeded this figure because it is considered to provide a sense of security for religious activities.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Agrarian and Spatial Planning/Head of the National Land Agency (ATR/BPN) Nusron Wahid reminded the public to update land certificates issued in 1961-1997 because many of them have not been registered and mapped systematically, so that they have the potential to cause legal problems later.
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