Legal Literacy - In everyday life, we often witness many legal cases that go viral in the mass media that are directly related to land disputes. In many land dispute cases, the object of the dispute is the ownership and legal control of the land itself. Referring to Law Number 5 of 1960 concerning Basic Regulations on Agrarian Principles or UUPA, land control rights are classified into 4 types of rights, namely the rights of the Indonesian nation, state control rights, customary law community rights, and individual rights to land.

The Meaning of Land Control Rights

According to Prof. Boedi Harsono in his book “Indonesian Agrarian Law: History of the Formation of the Basic Agrarian Law Content and Implementation - Volume 1”, land control rights give authority to the rights holder which is public and private in nature. Public authority exists in the rights of the Indonesian nation, state control rights, and rights of customary law communities which are regulated in administrative land law.

Meanwhile, private authority exists in the right to use land individually. All land control rights contain a series of authorities, obligations or prohibitions for rights holders to do something regarding the land they have rights to. Something that is allowed, obligatory, or prohibited is what differentiates land control rights from one another. The following is a more detailed…