During a trip to Bali this week, President Joko Widodo promised that all land on the island will be certified, under deed by 2019.
On this visit, the Indonesian president saw the distribution of as many as 6,000 land deeds given to residents in Buleleng, North Bali. The “handover” was conducted on Tuesday in Taman Kota.
Jokowi echoed a statement he had made during his last visit to Bali in August, that the island will likely be the first province in the country to have full coverage under land deeds.
In Indonesia, there are approximately 126 million plots of land, but only deeds for 46 million of them, the government estimates.
“This year, I gave the target to the ministry that as much five million must be given. Next year, seven million, the year after is nine million, because people must be given these,” Jokowi said on Tuesday.
The president says he hopes that land deeds will help simplify and clear up land disputes.
The president’s mission for handing out land deeds has most certainly be overshadowed by the looming threat of a big eruption from Bali’s Mt. Agung volcano.
Speaking in Klungkung district, where many people living in the volcano’s danger zone evacuated to, Jokowi instructed evacuees to listen to the government’s instructions and said that the government would do its best to reduce economic costs incurred during the evacuation.
“It is not easy to handle a volcanic eruption because there is no certainty when it’s going to happen, or if it’s going to happen at all,” he said.
“I ask everybody near Gunung Agung to listen to the officials, the governor, and the mayor’s instruction so we can all minimize the impact of this volcano.”
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