Village Boundary Affirmation to be Conducted in 457 Villages in Sulawesi

MANADO — The development of village boundary affirmation will be accelerated over five years. Through the Integrated Land Administration and Spatial Planning Programme (ILASPP), running from 2025 to 2029, the Ministry of Home Affairs (Kemendagri) will expedite the programme in collaboration with the Ministry of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning/National Land Agency (ATR/BPN), the National Geospatial Agency (BIG), and the World Bank.

In the first year, three regencies have been designated as locations for accelerating village boundary affirmation: Bolaang Mongondow Regency in North Sulawesi, and Donggala Regency and Tolitoli Regency in Central Sulawesi.

The Director General of Village and Rural Development at Kemendagri, La Ode Ahmad P Bolombo, hopes that the implementation of village boundary affirmation in these three locations will proceed smoothly.

“We hope that the implementation process can run well, so that village communities and village governments can obtain benefits from this activity,” he said at the opening of the Kick-off Meeting for Village Boundary Affirmation under the ILASPP Government for the 2026 fiscal year, in Manado on Wednesday (29/04/2026).

La Ode explained that, based on collected data, the villages in these three regencies do not yet have definitive village boundaries or regency regulations regarding village boundaries. Therefore, he urged the regents of these three regencies and relevant parties to provide full support for the implementation of technical assistance activities for village boundary affirmation.

Village boundary affirmation will be conducted in 457 villages. Bolaang Mongondow Regency covers all its villages, numbering 200. For Donggala Regency, it is 154 villages, and for Tolitoli Regency, 103 villages.