Land title process to be simplified

Procedures for the processing of land titles will be simplified in an effort to improve the city administration's services.

The simplification plan was announced on Tuesday by Minister of Agrarian Affairs/Chairman of the National Land Agency Soni Harsono and Governor Suryadi Soedirja.

Processing land titles will no longer be time-consuming because the arduous procedures will be cut, Soni said after presenting 2,511 land certificates to Jakartans, who were financially unable to process the titles.

Harsono also presented new forms of titles for collective ownership of apartments and of lands donated for religious purposes.

He added that city administration is striving to keep up with development and planning to process 6,000 land title proposals in the current 1994/95 fiscal year. (22)