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Lecturers at the Faculty of Islamic Religion and Teacher Education (FAIPG) Juanda University (UNIDA) together with the ASEAN Academic Forum delegation visited the Malaysian Land Professional Association (PRATAMA), on Friday, July 5 2024 in Kampung Bharu Kuala Lumpur. The agenda for this visit is to serve the community through Focus Group Discussion regarding land management issues in the aspects of policy and social use.
The UNIDA lecturers are Dr. Radif Khotamir Rusli, M.Ed (Lecturer at the Faculty of Islamic Religion and Teacher Education), Dr. Sudiman Sihotang, M.H (Lecturer at the Faculty of Law), Dr. Irman Suherman, M.Pd (Lecturer at the Faculty of Islamic Religion and Teacher Education), Mas Nur Mukmin, S.E., M.Ak (Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics and Business), Afmi Apriliani, S.Sos., M.A.P (Lecturer at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences ), and Wilna Iznilillah, S.T.P., M.T.P (Lecturer at the Faculty of Halal Food Science).
Present to welcome UNIDA lecturers together with the ASEAN Academic Forum delegation, PRATAMA President Prof. Dr. Ismail Omar expressed his welcome and thanks for the visit. He said, PRATAMA is an association institution that has a foundation for advancing the field of land administration and development to produce professional, efficient, innovative and competitive Malaysian land administrators and developers.
Prof. Dr. Ismail Omar explained that land use in Malaysia certainly requires policy, and ensuring that the Malaysian people understand the state's land, including the management of waqf land.
"In Malaysia there is a constitution, a national constitution that manages waqf land through the Religious Council, including the agency "Malaysian Waqf Foundation," he said.
However, there are still problems where land management in Malaysia has not been properly managed, especially the administrative and legal aspects. One of them is Kampung Bharu located in Kuala Lumpur. History shows that at one time there were around 4.7 million hectares of Malay Nature Reserves, but now the area has been reduced to around 1.7 million hectares across the country.
"The will of the Malay Kings at the time of independence, only half of it could be distributed to other races. In addition to the government's proposal to buy, there is also an effort to develop land in Kampung Bharu by renting it out. This method has the disadvantage of limited rental time. Long-term investment is difficult to do," he explained.
The meeting also discussed the jurisdiction of the land acquisition law in national development planning, the legal issues and implications of land acquisition, the role and importance of social impact assessment methods in land acquisition, as well as the issue of determining and settling the expropriation value of land acquisition.