Handing Over 124,120 Land Certificates Resulted In Redistribution, Jokowi: Don't Lose Or Divert It

President Joko Widodo (Photo: Screenshot of the Presidential Secretariat YouTube)

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has handed over hundreds of thousands of redistributed land certificates to the public on Agrarian and Spatial Planning Day which falls today, Wednesday, September 22. The land exists in several areas in the country.

"I will submit 124,120 land certificates as a result of redistribution in 26 provinces and 127 regencies/cities. 5,512 of them are the result of resolving agrarian conflicts in 7 provinces and 8 regencies/cities that are prioritized in 2021", said Jokowi when handing over the land redistribution certificate for the object of agrarian reform which was shown on the Presidential Secretariat Youtube, Wednesday, September 22.

He said the certificate handed over was very special because it was new and came from state land resulting from conflict resolution, abandoned land, and the release of forest areas.

"This is the result of a joint struggle. The struggle of the ladies and gentlemen also involves groups of civil society organizations and of course also from the government", said Jokowi.

So, he advised the land certificate recipients to use it well.

"Properly guarded. Don't let it get lost, don't get damaged or change its function or be transferred to someone else. It must be really guarded", said the former Governor of DKI Jakarta.

In addition, he also ordered four of his ministries, namely the Ministry of Agriculture; Ministry of Villages, Development of Disadvantaged Regions, and Transmigration; and the Ministry of Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises; and the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries to make the land more useful.

The way, the four ministries are asked to distribute assistance in the form of capital, seeds, fertilizers, to training. "So that the land cultivated by the beneficiaries of the agrarian reform is more productive", said Jokowi.

"Once again, so that the existing land is more productive, it gives results to help the lives of all of you", he concluded.