To Reduce Conflicts, Home Ministry to Resolve Boundaries in Five Thousand Villages
MANADO — Director General of Village Governance (Pemdes) at the Ministry of Home Affairs (Kemendagri), La Ode Ahmad P Bolombo, emphasised that village boundaries must be resolved promptly. According to him, affirming village boundaries is essential for creating legal certainty, targeted development planning, and reducing conflicts between villages.
“And to support the effectiveness of village governments, as well as serving as a basis for spatial planning at the regency, provincial, and national levels,” he stated during his presentation at the ‘Kick Off Meeting for Village Boundary Affirmation for Integrated Land Administration and Spatial Planning (ILASPP) Government’ in Manado, North Sulawesi. The event is taking place over three days from 28 to 30 April 2026.
In this ILASPP programme, Kemendagri is collaborating with the Ministry of ATR/BPN, BIG, and the World Bank. The programme will run for five years from 2025 to 2029, targeting a total of 5,000 villages. In the first phase, village boundary affirmation will be carried out in three regencies in Sulawesi: Bolaang Mongondow in North Sulawesi, and Donggala and Tolitoli in Central Sulawesi.
Village boundary affirmation will be conducted in 457 villages. In Bolaang Mongondow Regency, it covers all villages, numbering 200. For Donggala Regency, there are 154 villages, and for Tolitoli Regency, 103 villages.
“The aim is to enhance the capacity and coordination of local governments in carrying out the orderly and regulation-compliant determination of village boundaries. The objective of ILASPP is to support local governments at the regency/city level in implementing village boundary determinations,” he said.
He explained that to date, village boundary affirmation has reached 14.49%, or 10,909 villages across Indonesia. There are 10 provinces with the highest village boundary achievements: West Java, Central Java, South Kalimantan, East Java, Banten, West Kalimantan, NTT, Lampung, South Sumatra, and Aceh.
Meanwhile, the 10 provinces with the lowest village boundary achievements are Papua Pegunungan, South Papua, Gorontalo, Southwest Papua, Maluku, North Sulawesi, Central Kalimantan, Papua, and Southeast Sulawesi.
The implementation of village boundary affirmation activities includes a series of stages, such as socialisation at the regency and sub-district levels, collection and research of historical and juridical village boundary documents, tracking stages, and so on.