The urgency of the legal strategy of abandoned-land use through the formation of land bank in Indonesia

Abstract

Indonesia has the most significant potential land resources in Southeast Asia. However, these land resources are not utilized optimally. Some of them are even categorized as abandoned land. Therefore, Indonesia needs instruments to identify, manage, and distribute neglected land into more productive assets. Indonesia still faces challenges in building land bank. First, there is still overlapping with the current Agrarian Reform program. In addition, land bank is only focused on investment to improve the economy, while agrarian reforms prioritize social justice. This study aims to investigate legal issues on the importance of the establishment of land banks to assist land management in Indonesia and to propose a comprehensive legal framework regarding the use of neglected land. The focus is the management of land bank assets, especially for land acquisition of neglected land in Indonesia. This study is a legal study that used comparative approach. A case and comparative study regulation approaches was also conducted to focus on land bank policies in the Netherlands and the United States. The Data is collected through literature studies to analyze various regulations on land banks. Based on the study, the land bank laws in the Netherlands, and the United States have proven effective as guidelines and policy directions to provide solutions to the problems of land use. The land bank laws function as guidelines and policy directions for both governments, their private sector, people. They can overcome the problem of neglected land and realize sustainable development.

Keywords

• abandoned land
• land bank
• land management
• land use
• legal strategy