Legal Protection of Owners of Title to Abandoned Land
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https://doi.org/10.38035/sijal.v4i2.443Keywords:
Abandoned Land, Right of Ownership, Legal ProtectionAbstract
The state is authorized to take over and redistribute non-productive Right of Ownership (Hak Milik) land under Government Regulation Number 48 of 2025. However, the mechanism for declaring land as abandoned does not fully guarantee legal protection for rights holders due to limited rights to be heard, lack of transparency, and restricted access to legal remedies. This normative legal research aims to analyze the regulation of Right of Ownership over abandoned land within national land law and the forms of legal protection available to rights holders. The findings show that under Article 27 of Law Number 5 of 1960 in conjunction with Government Regulation Number 48 of 2025, the enforcement procedure is streamlined to 90 days, and land proven to be abandoned can have its rights revoked and converted into State Land. Although systematic, the current regulation still exhibits procedural weaknesses in protecting landowners. The novelty of this study lies in its critical evaluation of Government Regulation Number 48 of 2025 and the formulation of proposals to clarify the parameters for the "intentionally unmaintained" criterion in the Regulation of the Minister of ATR/BPN, aiming to establish balanced legal certainty between landowner obligations and state authority.
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