Police Investigate Alleged Sale And Purchase Of State Land Former HGU PT TKA In Penajam Paser Utara

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The police are investigating the alleged sale and purchase of state land from the former right to business (HGU) land of PT Triteknik Kalimantan Abadi (TKA) in Penajam Paser Utara (PPU), East Kalimantan (Kaltim).

"We are investigating allegations of buying and selling and controlling state land illegally managed by the Land Bank Agency," said North Penajam Paser Police Chief AKBP Hendrik Eka Bahalwan in Penajam, Monday, July 3, as reported by Antara.

The Land Bank Agency identified 1,883 hectares of land from 4,162 hectares to be handed over to residents through the PPU Regency Government as an agrarian reform program. The former PT TKA HGU land was taken over by the state after the use permit ended in 2019, and handed over to the Land Bank Agency with HPL status (land management rights) in 2022. The land is in the Gersik, Jenebora, Lango Beach and Riko Villages of Penajam District, as well as parts in the Maridan Village area, Sepaku District, PPU Regency.

The North Penajam Paser Police and the local state prosecutors who are members of the land mafia team continue to investigate the alleged criminal act of buying and selling and controlling state land inappropriately. The investigation is carried out so that the process of handing over land to the community can run smoothly without any problems.

and anticipate that there are legal problems on state land from the former HGU PT TKA land. "We and the prosecutor's office will carry out state land security which is legally managed by the Land Bank Agency," he said.

He added that those who still control state land from the former HGU PT TKA land were unnaturally to immediately stop all activities so as not to be affected by the law. The police took action against falsification of legality or land certificates, and the prosecutor's office took action against those who controlled the land unnaturally, said Hendrik Eka Bahalwan.