Surakarta (Antara Bali) - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has said that only about 44 percent of land plots in Indonesia have been certificated.
"The remaining 56 percent are land plots which have no certificates yet," President Jokowi said on the occasion of the handing over of 3,515 land certificates issued through the 2016 Strategic Land Program, here on Sunday.
The president admitted that the National Land Certification Program (Prona) had been running for 35 years but until now the certification program has not yet been completed.
"I hope this program would not stop only in a ceremonial event for a symbolic handover. I want to assure that all of you will have land certificates," Jokowi siad.
The head of state has targeted that the National Land Agency (BPN) should issue 60 million certificates until 2025. "I have ordered (the minister of agrarian/head of BPN). If I work I have a target. Next year, there must be 5 million certificates across the country, the following year, 7 million and 9 million certificates in 2019," he said.
Referring to the shortage of 10 thousand field officials, the president asked that non-civil servant officials could be used. The important thing is that they are trained and given certification.
"If we recruit civil servants it would take a long time. We should not use civil servants. Non-civil servants can be used but they have to be certified first," he said.
Jokowi said he wanted that all citizens have (land) certificates and the BPN should prepare a system so that this goal could be achieved.
On the occasion the president asked land certificate holders to keep their certificates well. They can use their certificates to obtain bank credits but in this case certificate holders should make a careful calculation first.
"If you want to obtain credit from banks, please. But you should be careful with the calculation. You should not take credits only to buy a vehicle. If you want to borrow money, the money should be for productive business, for increasing capital," the head of state said. (WDY)
