Nusron Wahid Promises Land Title Transfer Process in Maximum 10 Days
Minister of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning/Head of the National Land Agency (BPN) Nusron Wahid has targeted the completion of land ownership name transfers within 10 working days. The move responds to numerous complaints about the lengthy process of transferring land certificate ownership.
“In the context of accelerating land services for the public, especially since there have been many complaints about slow name transfers, we have established the standard operating procedure: name transfers shall take a maximum of 10 days,” Nusron said in an interview following the Coordination Meeting on Land Policy and Spatial Planning Programmes for East Nusa Tenggara Province in Kupang on Tuesday (4/8/2026).
According to Nusron, one of the main causes of delays has been the verification of payments for the Land and Building Acquisition Duty (BPHTB) at regional revenue offices, which takes considerable time.
“The reason it has been slow all this time is, among other things, that BPHTB payment verification has been slow at each respective regional revenue office,” said the Golkar Party politician.
To cut through the bureaucracy, the Ministry of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning/BPN, together with the Ministry of Home Affairs, will issue a joint circular. According to Nusron, BPHTB verification should take no more than three days.
Under this scheme, Nusron continued, if a regional government does not respond to the BPHTB verification within three working days, it will be deemed to have approved, and the name transfer process at the Land Office can proceed immediately.
Beyond accelerating services, Nusron also touched on the completion of land acquisition in Rote Ndao, agrarian conflicts in various regions, and issues surrounding the plot subdivision of coastal and marine buffer zones in West Manggarai.
“In essence, if coastal land is subdivided for a hotel, it must obtain a permit from the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries as well as a permit from the regional government, and must also pay non-tax state revenues,” Nusron concluded.