Extra funds to be alloted for
land certification
Agrarian
and Spatial Planning Minister Sofyan Djalil has said that his ministry will be
able to certify 5 million plots of land this year as targeted by President Joko
“Jokowi” Widodo as the Finance Ministry will disburse extra funds for the
program.
“About the
funding, Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati has agreed there will be
additional funds in June,” said Sofyan as reported by kontan.co.id on
Friday.
Only
Rp 1.4 trillion (US$104.94 million) for certification has been allotted in the
2017 state budget.
Sofyan said previously that the funds were enough only for the certification of
2 million plots of land, while President Jokowi insisted that the ministry
certify 5 million plots of land.
Sofyan said his
ministry needed Rp 2.8 trillion to achieve the government's target.
The problem is
that the revised state budget is usually approved by the House of
Representatives in September, Sofyan said.
“If the money is disbursed in September, it
will be very late. (type 1) Therefore, I have
convinced the coordinating economic minister and the finance minister that we
need the money,” Sofyan said, adding that land certification required
time for mapping, measuring, registration and certification.
He said that of
the 130 million plots of land in the country, only 46 million had been
certified.
Coordinating
Economic Minister Darmin Nasution assured that land certification would
continue even though the state budget had not been revised. “There will be
bridging funds to assure that land certification can continue,” he added. (bbn)
Indonesia prepares 600,000 ha land for
transmigration
The
government has allocated 600,000 hectares of land as part of a transmigration
program for people want to move from crowded cities and towns to remote
agricultural areas.
“There are
600,000 hectares of land that is ready to be converted into a transmigration
area both for local residents and those from Java,” said Disadvantaged Regions
and Transmigration Ministry’s development and people’s empowerment director
general Ahmad Erani Yustika in Jakarta on Friday as reported by tempo.co.
He declined to
divulge the exact location of the property, revealing only that it is located
in Kalimantan.
The
transmigration program facilitates people who wanted to become farmers by
providing them with sufficient agricultural land.
In the
1980s and 1990s, many residents of Java and Bali moved to Sumatra, Kalimantan
and even Papua, but currently, the government is now inviting locals to take
part in the program.
Erani said with
the program, his ministry is also supporting a land reform campaign, in which
the government distributes plots of mostly forest lands to farmers from 74,910
villages.
“About 40
percent of the 74,910 villages have forest territories. There are also villages
that have mining areas and social forests controlled by the Environmental
Affairs and Forestry Ministry,” he added. (bbn)
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