Jakarta, Nov 5 (Antara) - The central government is carrying out land certification throughout the country and encouraging regional administrations to make inventory on land assets.
Data collected through land stocktaking is intended to serve as a basis or data bank, which provides information on land matters such as the need for housing development, including the need for the government's one-million housing development program.
In Indonesia, there are 178 million hectares of land plots, but only about 46 percent of them have been certified. About 90 percent of the certified land plots are in urban areas while the remaining 30 percent are in villages. Therefore, the government is launching the land certification program across the country hoping that by 2025, all land plots would be certified.
According to Chief Economic Minister Darmin Nasution, the land certification is the backbone of the government's financial inclusive strategy because it would enable the people to obtain credits through the government's micro credit scheme (KUR).
"Actually, the KUR credit can be obtained by low-income people without any collateral; yet with certificates, people can get the KUR credits easily," Darmin said on Thursday (Nov 3).
In order to increase the percentage of certified lands, the Ministry of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning/National Land Agency (BPN) is drawing a digital land system and preparing 3 thousand non-civil servants land surveyors. This is to add to the 2 thousand civil servant land surveyors, some of whom have been appointed government officials.
The government will depend much on independent land surveyors who will be hired after being given vocational training.
According to President Joko Widodo (Jokowi), the government falls short of about 10 thousand field officials. He also inquired as to how non-civil servant officials could be used. The important thing is that they were trained and given certification.
"If we recruit civil servants, it would take a long time. We should not use civil servants. Non-civil servants can be used, but they have to be certified first," he said.
The head of state has targeted that the BPN should issue 60 million certificates by 2025. "I have ordered the minister and BPN head. If I work, I have a target. Next year, there must be 5 million certificates issued across the country, 7 million the following year, and 9 million certificates in 2019," he said.
Minister of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning Sofyan Djalil said that the government had set the target of certifying all land plots in Indonesia in 2025. "To expedite the achievement of the target, we will recruit 3 thousand non-civil servant surveyors. So, if a person wants a certificate, he or she can simply invite a surveyor and then visit the BPN to ask for the certificates."
Sugeng Suparwoto, Special staff of the agrarian affairs minister, noted that his office, working under Sofyan Jalil, would strive to meet the target by expediting the process of certification.
Sugeng said Widodo has included the land certification program in the medium-term national development plan 2015. The certification process lagged behind because of a shortage of land surveyors.
The National Land Certification Program (Prona) had been running for 35 years, but the certification program has not yet been completed till date. "I hope this program would not be discussed only at a ceremonial event for a symbolic handover. I want to assure that all of you will have land certificates," Jokowi stated on the occasion of the handing over of 3.5 thousand land certificates issued through the 2016 Strategic Land Program, in Surakarta, recently.
Jokowi said he wanted all citizens to have (land) certificates, and that BPN should prepare a system so that this goal can be achieved.
On the occasion, the president also asked the land certificate holders to keep their certificates safe. They can use their certificates to obtain bank credits; but in this case, certificate holders should make a careful calculation first.
"Please keep the certificates safe, because you can use it to obtain credit from banks. But you should be careful with the calculation too. You should not take credit only to buy a vehicle. If you want to borrow money, the money should be for productive business and for increasing capital," he stressed.
Nasution said land certificates can make it easier for the people to obtain KUR credits. After all, the land certification is part of the government's financial inclusive strategy.
The government is determined to increase its financial inclusive index from 36 percent in 2014 to 75 percent in 2019. The percentage of Indonesian financial inclusive index is still lower than India, which has 53 percent; Thailand, which has 78 percent; and Malaysia, which has 81 percent. ***3***(A014/INE)EDITED BY INE
(T.A014/B/BESSR/A. Abdussalam) 05-11-2016 12:13: |
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