Land Management and Policy Development Project

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The overall goal of the Land Management Project and Policy Development Project for Indonesia is to contribute to government programs in achieving poverty reduction, economic growth and promote full utilization of land resources in a sustainable manner. The proposed objectives of the project are: (i) improve land tenure security and enhance the efficiency, transparency, and improve service delivery of land titling and registration; and (ii) enhance local government capacity to undertake land management functions with great efficiency and transparency. There are five project components which achieve the objectives by: (a) development of land policies and related laws and regulations to bring coherence and consistency of laws and regulations related to administration and management of land affairs; (b) institutional development and support to the central and local institutions responsible for land administration and management with a focus on improving service delivery of land offices through establishment and monitoring of minimum service standards; (c) accelerating and expanding the systematic land titling program and developing a Land Information System (LIS); and (d) review the experience of local government management of land affairs, provision of training and capacity building to all local governments in standard operating procedures, and support to selected local governments (around 5) to be models of how local governments can efficiently and effectively undertake their new functions on land affairs.