Polda Metro And Ministry Of ATR / BPN Form Land Mafia Task Force

Kapolda Metro Jaya Inspector General Fadil Imran (Photo: Public Relations of the Police)

JAKARTA - Polda Metro Jaya and the Ministry of Agrarian Layout of the National Land Agency (ATR / BPN) held a coordination meeting (rakor) related to the settlement of the land mafia case. In the coordination meeting, discussed the issue of the formation of a task force (task force) of the land mafia.

"We carry out technical coordination meetings to deal with cases related to the land mafia. The aim is to build coordination, strengthen collaboration in order to eradicate the land mafia," said the Head of Metro Jaya Police, Inspector General Fadil Imran to reporters, Wednesday, March 3.

The formation of a land mafia task force, said Fadil, is to eradicate all crimes in this regard. Later, the task force will work according to the predetermined target.

"We want to defend the legal owners of the land. After this coordination meeting the task force will work based on the results of this coordination meeting so that we can complete it together," he said.

In addition, the Director General of Land Disputes and Conflict Handling of the Ministry of ATR / BPN, Raden Bagus Agus Widjayanto, said that during the collaboration with the National Police, at least 180 land mafia cases had been handled since 2018.

In fact, hundreds of cases, many of which have already entered court proceedings. Meanwhile, the rest are in the filing stage.

"There are those who have gone to court, already P21, some have named suspects, and the follow-up of what we have done together with the Regional Police, the results are material for us to follow up in land administration," he said.

On the other hand, Agus said that from hundreds of reports of cases of land mafia, the majority of them are falsification of land deeds to ownership. So, it needs to be taken firmly to be resolved immediately.

"So we cooperate with the Police, the Regional Police and the results become the basis for us to make corrections to the certificates that have been issued," he said.