INDONESIAN EXPERIENCE IN THE RESTORATION OF LAND TENURE SYSTEM IN THE POSTTSUNAMI ACEH

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INDONESIAN EXPERIENCE IN THE RESTORATION OF LAND
TENURE SYSTEM IN THE POST-TSUNAMI ACEH

• Joyo Winoto, Ph.D
• Head of Indonesian National Land Agency

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Impacts of Tsunami in Aceh

• Over 300.000 home destroyed
• Over 500.000 people displaced
• Over 126.925 people were killed
• Over 37.063 people were still missing
• And, land archive destroyed and missing

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Conditions of Land Tenure and Land Administration
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The Government Response

• Emergency Relief Phase.
• May 2005, Indonesian government declared that the
  emergency relief phase was over and it was time
  to fully focus on the huge task of rebuilding
  lives and infrastructure.
• Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Phase.
• Government rapid respond to reconstructions and
  rehabilitation of land tenure system

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THE POLICY AND STRATEGY OF LAND TENURES
RESTORATION

• Transfer of land ownership/right prohibited
• Digital of Land Records reproduced
• Abolished Land recovered
• Land Right for their Unknown Owner managed
• Property Tax exempted
• Land Rights reconstructed
• State Budget Grant Allocated

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STAGES IN RECONSTRUCTION AND REHABILITATIONS OF
LAND ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT

• In September 2005 until May 2006, 200 NLA
  mobilized staffs (surveyors and administration
  staffs) were placed in Banda Aceh and Aceh Besar,
  to support the reconstruction program.
• In September 2006, 480 NLA mobilized staffs were
  located in 9 Kabupaten (district) in NAD.
• In September 2008, 242 NLA mobilized staffs were
  placed in 13 Kabupaten/Kota (district/Cities)
  Offices in NAD. By the end of December 2008, they
  have adjudicated 63.933 land parcels or about 58
  from the target of 110,000 land parcels.

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OBJECTIVES THE RESTORATION OF LAND TENURE

• Reconstruction of land boundaries by identifying
  and rebuilding the land boundaries closed to the
  conditions before tsunami.
• Reconstruction of land rights by issuing
  certificates for registered and not registered
  land parcels.

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In the last three years, the results of the
reconstruction are as follows

• 3 offices have been re-built (Local Land Offices
  - LLO in Kab. Aceh Jaya, Kab. Gayo Luwes, dan
  Kota Sabang).
• 3 offices have been renovated (including Kanwil/
  Provincial Land Office NLA NAD)
• Some office equipments have been reinstalled 143
  units computers, servers, printers, etc
• Surveying equipments have been provided 33 sets
  Total Station, 6 sets GPS receiver geodetic type,
  9 units handheld GPS, including softwares
• 21 units of operational cars and 200 unit of
  operational motorcycles have been provided.

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THE NEW LAW FOR RECONSTRUCTION OF ACEH LAND
ADMINISTRATION MANAGEMENT

• Law number 48 year 2007 regarding handling legal
  issue in the framework of the implementation of
  rehabilitation and reconstruction areas and
  people living In Aceh Province and Nias islands
  North Sumatera
• Specific issues in the law are
• Tax exemption for Land registration
• Simplicity evidence of bank deposit
• Prohibition for PPAT/Notaries for transfering of
  right before juridical and physical data clearly
• Arrangement of Baitul Mal for the Moslem
  properties and Balai Harta Peninggalan for
  non-Moslems
• Relocation for tsunami victims

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