Yogyakarta Palace Rewards Residents Who Return Sultanate Land

YOGYAKARTA - The Yogyakarta Palace gave a gift in the form of a title letter or the right to borrow and use the sultanate land to a number of residents in Kulon Progo Regency, Yogyakarta Special Region, who voluntarily returned the certificate of the sultanate land or "Sultan Ground".

"As a form of appreciation from the Yogyakarta Palace, residents from the Kembang (Kulon Progo) Village who voluntarily return the SG (Sultan Ground) land certificate will be given a Kekancingan Letter from the Yogyakarta Palace for their willingness to return the certificate," said Penghageng Tepas Panitikisma of the Yogyakarta Palace, GKR Mangkubumi, as quoted by Antara. , Friday, May 13.

GKR Mangkubumi said efforts to achieve orderly land administration have been fully supported by the DIY community, especially in Kulon Progo Regency.

"The proof is that some residents voluntarily hand over land that has certified ownership rights to the sultanate because the land is sultanate land based on Legger and the 1938 village map," he said.

According to GKR Mangkubumi, the return of the land certificate was carried out by residents as a form of gratitude and the belief in "ngalap blessing" (seeking blessings) from Ngarsa Dalem or the King of the Yogyakarta Palace Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono X.

"All of these land parcels are SG land," said the eldest daughter of Sultan Hamengku Buwono X.

The certificate was handed over on May 13, 2022 at the Kembang Village Office, Nanggulan, Kulon Progo.

The land handed over is located in two villages, namely Kembang Village, Nanggulan District and Giripurwo Village, Girimulyo District, Kulon Progo.

The land area of SG in Kembang Village that will be returned includes a residence 113 meters from 452 (Padukuhan Pronosutan), a family grave 82 meters (Padukuhan Pronosutan), and a residential house 474 meters (Padukuhan Pronosutan).

Meanwhile, SG's land that was handed over and located in Giripurwo Village consists of a rice field covering an area of 100 meters from an area of 4,291 meters located in Padukuhan Sabrang.

As a form of appreciation from the Yogyakarta Palace, residents of the Kembang Village were given a Kekancingan Letter.

"Residents from Giripurwo were given a letter of appreciation because the person concerned did not intend to use it again," he said.

Furthermore, according to GKR Mangkubumi, the Yogyakarta Palace will continue to seek to collect data on SG lands that have not been recorded around the area.

He said, in accordance with the Privileges Law Number 13/2012 concerning the Privileges of the Special Region of Yogyakarta, it was stated that land affairs were one of the authorities in the five special affairs.

Its implementation is based on the values of local wisdom and partiality to the people.

In this case, the sultanate and the duchy are declared as legal entities that have ownership rights to the sultanate land, while the duchy is the subject of rights that have the ownership rights to the duchy land status.

Sultanate and duchy lands, he said, include keprabon lands and non-keprabon lands found in the DIY region.

In the Special Regional Regulation (Perdais) of DIY Number 1 of 2017, it is necessary to administer the land of the Sultanate and Duchy which in this case is the authority of the Sultanate and Duchy.

"Land administration includes the stages of inventory, identification, verification, mapping, and continued registration of sultanate lands and duchy lands," he said.