Land Bank Targets Management of 35,000 hectares of Land This Year

Head of the Strategic Planning Division of the Land Bank Agency, Gatot Trihargo (left). Photo: Theresia Agatha/VOI

JAKARTA - The Land Bank (BBT) targets to control 35,000 hectares of land by 2026. If achieved, BBT's total assets will reach 70,000 hectares by the end of the year.

"The target of the Deputy Procurement is 35,000 this year. So, add 35,000 from the existing 35,000. Hopefully it can be successful, so a total of 70,000 (hectares)," said Head of the Strategic Planning Division of the Land Bank Agency, Gatot Trihargo, at a press conference in Jakarta, Friday, July 10.

Deputy Head of the Agrarian Land Bank Reform Division, Syafran Zamzami, said that to achieve the target, the Land Bank would work with related parties, ranging from the Ministry of ATR/BPN and local governments (Pemda).

"It needs support from the Ministry of ATR/BPN, regional governments, to ensure that the land is indeed used by the Land Bank, the ease of procedures for determination," he said.

Later, these lands will be allocated for various purposes, ranging from agrarian reform, food security, housing, industry to general and social.

It is known that the amount of land that has been utilized until July 2026 has reached 20,000 hectares or about 57 percent of the total assets owned by BBT today.

Then, the rest is still in the form of inventory or assets that have not been utilized.

The largest allocation of assets of 11,700 hectares is intended for agrarian reform. The second largest allocation is around 20 percent to support the economy, housing and others.

The largest asset managed by the Land Bank Agency is in Poso, Central Sulawesi, which reaches 7,123 hectares. Formerly, it was a former cocoa plantation HGU land.

In the future, land managed by the Land Bank will be utilized again by the people in accordance with its provisions.

The land was given the Management Rights (HPL) status in accordance with applicable regulations.

Then, it can be changed into a Business Use Right, Building Use Right and Use Right within a certain period of time.

In carrying out its duties to acquire land, the Land Bank can obtain it through government-determined land and land from other parties.

As for the government-determined land that can be obtained by the Land Bank, it is state land originating from:

- Former rights land;

- Abandoned areas and land;

- Land release of forest areas;

- Raised ground;

- Reclaimed land;

- Former mine land;

- Land of small islands;

- Land that is subject to spatial planning changes; and

- Land that has no ownership on it.