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Balikpapan Ready to Pay Compensation for Public Road After Land Verification

From Republika · () Indonesian

Translated from Indonesian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Balikpapan’s municipal government plans to pay compensation for privately certified land used as a public road in the Taman Bukit Sari VIP I area.
  • The payment will follow verification by the National Land Agency and a separate review by the city’s housing and settlement department.
  • The compensation amount remains undecided and will be assessed by an independent public appraiser once the legal status is clear.

Balikpapan’s municipal government says it is ready to compensate the owner of land that has served as a public road for decades, but only after the National Land Agency verifies the ownership certificate.

The dispute concerns a road in Taman Bukit Sari VIP I, Graha Indah, in North Balikpapan. The land belongs to Ratna Kumala, whose certificate dates to 1983. The National Land Agency’s Balikpapan office has said the document is valid and that a repeat measurement matches the location of the road.

Once the land ownership certificate has been verified by the Balikpapan National Land Agency, we will process it immediately.

· ZulkifliBalikpapan’s municipal administration assistant explained when the city would begin processing compensation.

Residents’ legal representatives, Muhammad Rifai and Dewi Decanova, filed the compensation claim. Rifai said the land had never received compensation since it began being used. The roughly 1,500-meter route has long served as a main access road for residents, initially as an earth road built independently by the community between Taman Bukit Sari Villa Intra Persada VIP I and the Batu Ratna area.

We filed the compensation claim because, from the time the land began being used, no compensation had ever been paid.

· Muhammad RifaiThe residents’ lawyer described the basis of the claim.

The Public Works Agency later paved the road after proposals from the local village and subdistrict authorities, but it did so without first verifying the land’s ownership status. At a hearing at the Balikpapan City Council, municipal administration assistant Zulkifli said the city would process the payment once the certificate had been verified. The housing and settlement department will also examine whether the land is entirely private or should have been handed over as public facilities by the housing developer.

The city has not set a compensation figure. An independent public appraisal firm will calculate it after the legal issues are settled. Council members said they would oversee the process and seek legal clarity over the road’s status.

The logical choice is for the municipal government to pay compensation so that its status as a public facility becomes legally valid.

· Danang Eko SusantoThe chair of the city council’s Commission I called for the road’s legal status to be resolved.
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Originally published by Republika in Indonesian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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