According to reporting from local news wires, including Tempo and Antara News, President Jokowi instated Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono (AHY) as Indonesia’s new Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning Minister at the State Palace in Jakarta, on Wednesday (21/2/24.)
AHY, the first son of Indonesia’s sixth president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, succeeds Hadi Tjahjanto, who was inaugurated as Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs on the same occasion. AHY holds three master’s degrees, from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2006; Harvard University, the United States, in 2010; and Webster University, the United States, in 2015.
According to Tempo, AHY became a candidate for the 2017 Jakarta gubernatorial race, with support from the Democratic Party, National Awakening Party (PKB), National Mandate Party (PAN), and United Development Party (PPP,) and in March 2020, he was appointed as general chairperson of the Democratic Party for the 2020 to 2025 period.
Speaking after the inauguration ceremony, President Jokowi instructed AHY, to achieve three targets as the new Minister of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning, including “issuing electronic land certificates on an even more massive scale.”
The government started issuing digital land certificates in December last year to provide convenience to people seeking to print out the physical form of their land certificates, says Tempo.
Jokowi said he also expected AHY to immediately conclude the issuance of a regulation concerning the land utilization rights (HGU) related to carbon trading activities, “as plenty of parties have conveyed their keenness to participate (in carbon trading activities in Indonesia),” he said.
Tempo reports that the third important task AHY was given was to pursue the target of registering 120-million parcels of land under the Complete Systematic Land Registration (PTSL) Program.
Source: Antara News, Tempo, The President of The Republic of Indonesia website
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