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BIG’s 2027 Budget Focuses on Strategic National Mapping Projects

From Republika · () Indonesian

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

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  • Indonesia’s Geospatial Information Agency will receive 2.46 trillion rupiah for 2027, with 2.2 trillion rupiah allocated to the World Bank-funded Integrated Land Administration and Spatial Planning Project.
  • The agency plans to produce large-scale 1:5,000 base maps across Indonesia and map coastal areas in Cirebon and Brebes to support a proposed giant sea wall.
  • Other allocations cover geotagging low-income households in South Sulawesi, verifying rice fields across Sulawesi, and resolving land-border disputes with Malaysia and Timor-Leste.

Indonesia’s Geospatial Information Agency is putting the bulk of its 2027 budget behind a single nationwide mapping effort. Of the 2.46 trillion rupiah allocated to the agency, 2.2 trillion rupiah, or about 89.32 percent, will fund the Integrated Land Administration and Spatial Planning Project, known as ILASPP.

The World Bank-funded project will produce large-scale base maps at a 1:5,000 scale across Indonesia. Acting BIG head Mohamad Arief Syafi’i told the House of Representatives’ Commission XII in Jakarta that the mapping assignment covers the country’s entire territory.

We have been tasked with providing large-scale base maps at a 1:5,000 scale for the entire territory of Indonesia through this project.

— Mohamad Arief Syafi’iBIG’s acting head described the main mapping task under the ILASPP project.

BIG will also set aside 12.47 billion rupiah to map waters and the northern coast of Java in support of plans for a giant sea wall. In 2027, the agency will focus on Cirebon and Brebes, integrating land and marine maps so officials can simulate flooding linked to water flows from land and coastal land subsidence.

In 2027, according to the priority locations, we will map areas in Cirebon and Brebes. The base map will integrate land and sea, allowing us to simulate where flooding will go when water comes from the land and when coastal land subsides.

— Mohamad Arief Syafi’iHe explained how coastal mapping would support planning for a giant sea wall.

A separate 2 billion rupiah allocation will support President’s Instruction No. 8 of 2025 on poverty reduction. The money will fund geotagging in South Sulawesi, recording the locations of low-income households by coordinates rather than only counting them by area.

BIG also plans to reverify rice-growing land across Sulawesi with 1.5 billion rupiah, to establish the area available and help calculate national harvest capacity. It has allocated another 7.10 billion rupiah to work on unresolved land-boundary disputes between Indonesia and Malaysia and between Indonesia and Timor-Leste.

The locations of low-income households will not only be known by their number in an area, but also by where they live, using location and coordinates.

— Mohamad Arief Syafi’iHe described the purpose of the poverty-reduction geotagging project.
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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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