The Ministry Of ATR/BPN Wants To Accelerate Registration Of 3.2 Million Ha Tanah Ulayat, But Often Meets Obstacles

Director General of Land Rights Determination (Dirjen PHPT) of the Ministry of ATR/BPN Asnaedi. (Photo: Theresia Agatha/VOI)

BANDUNG - The Ministry of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning/National Land Agency (ATR/BPN) is committed to accelerating the registration of 3.2 million hectares (ha) of customary land for around 3,000 indigenous legal communities spread across 16 provinces of Indonesia.

This is in line with the issuance of the Regulation of the Minister of ATR/Head of BPN Number 14 of 2024 concerning the Implementation of Land Administration and Land Registration for the Right to Ulayat Community of Indigenous Law.

However, until now the government is still having problems achieving this.

Director General of Land Rights Determination (Dirjen PHPT) of the Ministry of ATR/BPN Asnaedi said the biggest obstacle was the way to identify the indigenous legal community itself.

"Then we determine which areas of customary law society are. Because, right, not all of them have been recorded," said Asnaedi during the first international conference on the Registration of Ulayat Land in Indonesia on September 4-7 in Bandung, West Java.

Asnaedi assessed that in order to achieve this target, a lot of time and information sources were needed.

"Not all of them were recorded, so we identified, gave an inventory, it really took time, accuracy (up to) a lot of information sources. Not just one," he said.

He added that the target of the Ministry of ATR/BPN in the future is to accelerate more areas of customary land in the country.

Given, Indonesia has a large potential for customary land.

"The potential, yes, is quite large. It's just that, right, we really have to research the subject. We determine the subject, the subject of indigenous society is really or not. That's what we have to examine too," he said.

Thus, it is hoped that in the future there will be no more shifts. So, the HPL can be published immediately.