Govt. Updates Regulatory Framework for Electronic Land Certificates

In order to further improve Indonesia’s overall ease of doing business, as well as to enhance the provision of public services, the Minister of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning/Head of the National Land Agency (“Minister”) is aiming to modernize the country’s land services by requiring all data, information and/or documents resulting from land registration activities to be recorded in electronic format.[1]

In order to achieve this goal, the Minister has issued Regulation No. 1 of 2021 on Electronic Land Certificates (“Regulation 1/2021”), which contains a number of provisions that address the following specific areas: