National Land Agency BPN - Republic of Indonesia (1995):
International Workshop on the Implementation of Rural Land Consolidation

5.3 Implementation of Rural Land Consolidation

National development in the agriculture sector is aimed at developing a better efficiated and sound improvement of agricultural up-built. In the long-term sense, the growth of economics is the dynamic core to national development in achieving a proportional equilibrium of development among sector of agriculture and industry.

The nation's second long-term agriculture development comprises projectory aims for:

• Sustainable food crops.
• Increment and equality of farmer's income.
• Expansions of new job opportunities.
• Improvement of human resources development.
• Betterment of equalities to development.

Toward the support of such aims, our rural Land Consolidation are projected along these following stages:

Preparatory Stages Comprises:

• Study on location feasibility
• Enlightenment, approaches and early steps to title-search.
• Analyses to landowners approval.
• Fixation of location sites by decree.
• Submittance of project proposal.
• data collecting stage
• Manland identification (further steps to title-search).
• Cadastral surveying of outer boundaries and of existing land holdings.
• Cadastral survey to subdivisioning.
• Topographic and landuse mapping.

Consolidatory Stage:

• Block-plan mapping and surveying.
• Design mapping of future parcels.
• Plenary protocols and approval search to future outlays of parcels.
• Alienation of exiting landholdings/landtitles.
• Staking-out of reallocated parcels. Issuance of new land titles (by decree ).
• Land title certification.

Implementation of physical public works (roads, sewerage, boundary poles, etc.).

The organization in charge of actuating consolidation of rural lands stretches hierarchically from national level to provincial and municipal/Sub-provincial levels. At provincial level a Supervisory Land Consolidation Team ("Tim Pengendali Konsolidasi Tanah") is organized by Governor decree, to supervise the following jurisdiction:

The Governor itself (to foster the team).

Head of the provincial BPN office (Chairman).

Chairman of the provincial Planning board (BAPPEDA)-Vice chairman.

Field officer of land reform (secretary).

Other members include heads of government bureau, public works, agriculture office, and field officers of landuse, landtitling, and land cadastering.

At municipally/Sub-provincial level a coordinating team and Task Force unit is organized by Bupati/Walikota decree to execute the following:

The coordinating Team:

• to do public relations and enlightenments;
• to evaluated and direct the making of spatial design;
• to manage parcels of cost-equivalent-lands;
• to solve problems/disputes;

others

The Task Force is in charge of actual field works, it consists field
officers of the related Land office, the Camat's and Lurah's concerned.

Experience has shown that legal status of land would determine the kind of land consolidation treatment. On state-owned unoccupied public lands (projected for agriculture extensification programs, transmigration, irrigated rice-fields programs, (undertaking, and export crops rehabilitation and development programs), the conducting of land consolidation could like b of more compulsive rather than persuasive nature. Whereas a contrary treatment would have to be adopted in cases of titled lands upon which the hardware and software technology were alltogetherly needed. Consolidation of such lands were to take on a l persuasive "Musyawarah untuk mufakat" approach so as to pave the way for reshaping and reforming of landsize, parcel boundaries and topographical outlays, and for issuance of substituted land titles.