Perpres Land Bank of Publication 2017

                            

JAKARTA – The government confirmed that Presidential Decree (Decree) on the land bank rose in 2017 following the establishment of a team of expert land bank.

Agricultural and Spatial Planning Minister / National Land Agency (ATR / BPN) Sofyan Djalil, said the provision of land through land bank is urgent because land prices continue to rise.

Sofyan said, if the price of land can not be controlled then it will be difficult to build housing, especially for low-income communities (MBR).

“Bank land the most important is to control the market price so it was not like the present conditions. If now the inflation of land is so high that the MBR increasingly difficult to have the home ground,” the minister said in the Economic Forum Nusantara in Jakarta, Wednesday (14 / 12).

He also said the government is preparing a draft law on the land as a legal umbrella for the provision of land. According to him, land use should take precedence in the public interest, including housing.
“The land will be crucial inventory that will be managed either by the land bank,” he said.

Chief Minister’s Expert Team ATR / BPN Field Land Bank, Hima Sugoto Arief, said the current need of land to build housing is very high. Meanwhile, the government has not been able to master the ownership of land. Thus, upon issuance of the Presidential Land Bank, the team of experts can immediately take strategic steps to control the land.

“We’re drafting a manuscript academic. Already 60-70% toward regulation. We are also in harmony with the Ministry of ATR / BPN, so that the land bank it has a strong position in the provision of land for public purposes,” said Hima.

Hima also revealed the problems faced today is the amount of land with abandoned its status (idle) so it can not be used for construction on it. Thus, further Hima, it will immediately register the land, and then change its status.

“In Indonesia we already have the data, there are 400 thousand hectares (ha) of land were abandoned. The potential is not great, but the target of next year we started doing changing the status of land to be used for the public interest,” he said.

                            
                            
                            

                                   

                            

Laila Ramdhini / EDO

                            

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