TS 10 – Developing Land Administration Systems

A great number of populations (220 million) as well as the land parcels (85 million) have began to create potential problems for land registration in Indonesia. Some approaches have been applied since the day of independence in 1945, especially since the enactment of Basic Agrarian Law 1960 and Land Registration Regulation 1961. Almost 44 years after, the Government has only successfully issued about 27 million certificates of land titles of land parcels. Among them not until 20 % have been properly mapped into fully standardized national cadastral maps, most of them have not been mapped at all (‘flying parcels’) and few have been mapped into local map systems. Mapping land parcels into single system national cadastral maps is extremely important not only for technical and informatics purposes but also for legal, administrative, development planning, land and property taxes, and even political and national security purposes as well. This paper will firstly explain the anatomy of cadastre in Indonesia as we call it the ‘hamburger structure ’ of a cadastre. Secondly, this paper will tell some approaches and projects have been applied and conducted in building the land cadastre, its problems, constraints, and challenges. Finally, this paper will offer a new approach in speeding-up the land registration processes through building the physical cadastre through data inventory and registry of existing information from related parties and institutions