GTZ - Land Tenure in Development Cooperation: Chapter 4.3

Guiding Principles: Land Tenure in Development Cooperation
Orientierungsrahmen: Bodenrecht und Bodenordnung		Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit Abt. 45 / Div. 45

4.3 Instruments for Land Administration

Land administration includes the regulations and measures of the following:

The rights to land and its fundamental elements,
The use of land,
The valuation of land.

Fundamental objectives of land policy are implemented by the land administration. It provides the background information for structural change and transformation processes. The establishment of an efficient comprehensive structure for land administration is increasingly becoming a part of development cooperation in countries with a dynamic economic development such as in Southeast Asia, Latin America, Southern Africa and in the transition countries (ECE 1996, University of Florida 1996)

Land administration

Land administration project, Indonesia

Project goals:

Acceleration of land titling and registration
Improvement of the Institutional Framework for Land Administration
Development of Land Management Policies

Principal Partner Institution: National Land Agency BPN

Human Resources: 2300 staff

No. of parcels in Indonesia: 55 million

WB loan for the first phase: US$ 80 million

Tech. Assistance Australia: US$ 15 million

(WB Staff Appraisal Report, 1994 and Grant 1996)