Land rights transfers in Indonesia are expected to take ten days. On 17 August, the ATR/BPN land agency introduced a new procedure for balik nama, the local term for transferring land rights to a new owner.
This is only the first stage: the procedure is currently available at 17 land offices across the country. In Bali, these are the offices in Badung, which covers Kuta, Seminyak, Canggu, Jimbaran and Nusa Dua, and in Buleleng in the north of the island.
The service is called Peralihan Hak Terintegrasi, or integrated transfer of rights. The procedure consists of three stages. First, the local authorities have three days to verify the BPHTB, the tax on the acquisition of land and building rights. If the verification is not completed within that time, the application is considered automatically approved.
Next, the PPAT, an authorised land deed official, has two days to draw up the AJB, the deed of sale and purchase. At the third stage, the documents are processed by the land office, which has a maximum of five days to complete the work. The target time for the entire procedure is therefore no more than ten days. Applications are processed in the order they are received, with earlier submissions handled first.
The agency’s faster procedure does not replace due diligence on the land before the transaction, including checks for encumbrances, mortgages, inheritance disputes, the type of land right and the land’s designated use. These checks are carried out by Legal Indonesia.
ATR/BPN plans to expand the programme in stages. By the end of December 2026, 100 land offices are expected to be operating under the new system. According to Minister Nusron Wahid, these offices account for around 85% of all land services in the country.
Title transfers are not the only service being accelerated. On the same date, 17 August, the scheduled land survey service (Pengukuran Terjadwal) was introduced at land offices throughout Indonesia.
The maximum waiting time for a survey is seven days, with another five days allocated for processing the data and preparing the land parcel map. The entire process should take no more than 12 days, and survey applications are also processed in the order they are received.
Another change is the transition to a territorial operating model (Organisasi Berbasis Wilayah). It is being introduced at ten land offices, including those in Denpasar and Tabanan in Bali. Department heads are now responsible for a specific part of a city or regency rather than for a particular area of work. ATR/BPN says the reforms are intended to make land services more transparent and their processing times more predictable.
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