East Java Provincial Government Prepares Volunteers to Accelerate Land Certification
Surabaya - The East Java Provincial Government is preparing volunteers and participatory community movements to accelerate land certification, aiming to provide legal certainty and prevent potential agrarian conflicts in society.
“Accelerating land certification requires strong human resource support. Therefore, through today’s collaboration, we aim to ensure additional manpower to speed up the process in the field,” stated East Java Governor Khofifah Indar Parawansa in a statement received in Surabaya on Saturday.
She explained that this step is being realised through strengthening human resources and cross-sector collaboration, including the signing of a Cooperation Agreement (PKS) between the East Java National Land Agency (BPN) and Universitas KH Abdul Chalim.
As a concrete form, the East Java Provincial Government together with BPN is preparing around 7,500 volunteers for accelerating land certification, known as laskar karomah, from the santri and student communities.
In addition, the East Java Provincial Government together with BPN will also launch the Joint Community Movement for Boundary Marking (Gema Patas) and the Joint Movement for Juridical Data Collection (Gema Puldadis) to strengthen the land certification acceleration process.
“If data is not verified and land boundaries are unclear, it has the potential to cause disputes. Even land markers can shift. Therefore, these two movements are very important,” she said.
Head of the East Java BPN Regional Office, Asep Heri, stated that this cooperation is a strategic step in preparing additional human resources to support land certification acceleration.
“Through this cooperation agreement, we are designing how to have additional human resources to help accelerate certification, including involving social-religious elements such as NU and Muslimat NU,” he revealed.
“We will soon conduct guidance and training for the 7,500 volunteers or laskar karomah in Pacet. They will be equipped to understand what needs to be done and how to assist the land certification process in the field,” he said.
According to Asep, the volunteers will be divided into two main roles, namely the collection of physical data and juridical data to support the land certification process.
“In the field, they will be divided into two: some focusing on physical data such as installing markers, and others handling juridical data such as collecting proof of ownership for the certification process, both for ownership rights and waqf, including all places of worship across religions,” he said.