Validity of the Extension of PTPN XIV’s Cultivation Right over Customary Land: Reconstructing Legal Protection for Negeri Tananahu
Abstract
This study examines the validity of the extension of PTPN XIV’s cultivation right where part of the land concerned lies within the customary territory of Negeri Tananahu. It analyzes the legal basis of the 2019 extension, assesses its validity in terms of authority, procedure, and substance, and reconstructs legal protection for Negeri Tananahu as an indigenous law community. This normative legal research applies statutory, conceptual, case, and historical approaches by analyzing legal materials and documents relating to the dispute. The analysis finds that the Minister Decision Number 41/HGU/KEM-ATR/BPN/V/2019 constitutes a decision extending PTPN XIV’s cultivation right. Its validity depends on ministerial authority, compliance with extension requirements, examination of land status and history, possession and use of individual parcels, boundary delineation, conformity with spatial planning, and examination by the Land Examination Committee B. Recognition of Negeri Tananahu strengthens its legal status in protecting its customary territory. Legal protection operates through careful land examination, public information disclosure, land case handling and resolution, administrative remedies, judicial proceedings, and administration and registration of land subject to customary rights after overlapping rights have been resolved.
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