The State Secures 14,325 Land Ha From The Mafia, Potential Losses Reaches IDR 23.37 Trillion

Minister of ATR/BPN Nusron Wahid (Photo: dock VOI)

JAKARTA - Land area of 14,315.36 hectares (ha) has been rescued by the state through the Land Mafia Eradication Task Force from land crime syndicates with potential losses (potential losses) reaching more than Rp23 trillion.

This was stated by the Minister of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning/Head of the National Land Agency (ATR/BPN) Nusron Wahid at the Coordination Meeting (Rakor) on Prevention and Settlement of Land Crimes in Jakarta, Wednesday, December 3.

"A total of 14,315.36 ha of land parcels were rescued from land crime syndicates and potential loss that were saved from land crimes worth Rp. 23.37 trillion," said Nusron.

He added that as many as 90 land mafia cases had been successfully resolved from the target of 107 operations this year.

"And managed to determine 185 suspects," he said.

According to Nusron, land crimes have deeply disturbed the community. The land mafias are known to have built a syndicate in a structured and systematic manner, starting from upstream like village officials.

"Advertisement of letters at the village, sub-district level, this has actually become an entry point," he explained.

This is exacerbated by the weakness of the land legal system in Indonesia which still relies on historical documents.

It is known that the historical documents came from a verbal source, aka a history of land originating from tourists at the village level.

"I have said many times, in any world, including Indonesia, let alone land issues when it comes to history and cooperation issues, disputes will definitely arise. Starting from there," he said.