Cadastral Base Mapping Activity in Indonesia

The Indonesian national land Agency (BPN) has formed a deputy for survey and mapping in 2006. The formation was meant to speed up the availability of large scale base map for cadastral and land registration need. Since 1960, when the Agrarian Act was issued, only five percent of the total area of Indonesia (approximately 1.900.000 square Km) has been mapped by the scale of 1:10.000, 1:2500 and 1:1000. By the launching of the Agrarian Reform program in 2007, one of its goals is to complete the registration of the whole land parcels within 18 years. As consequences, more than 3 million parcels have to be measured and registered every year. This program has pushed that cadastral base map with suitable scale covering the whole area must be available before that time scale. This paper explores the existing status and condition of large scale map and strategic planning to complete the map covering the whole area of Indonesia