The Regulation on Subject to a Property Rights of a Land According to Agrarian Law (UUPA)

Abstract

The law regarding agrarian has undergone many changes. The debate regarding the status of land ownership still needs a lot of study. Therefore, this research is interesting to do in order to findout the subject of a land ownership by virtue of the agrarian law (UUPA). This study using a normative juridical approach and uses an analytical descriptive in writing the data by describing the secondary data so that it is factual, accurate, and systematic. The source of this research comes from statutory regulations, the existence of decisions that have the court basis then analyzed using a qualitative way. The result describes that the agrarian law stipulated a legal principle under article number 21 stating that only Indonesian citizen who is able to have the rights over the land property, regardless whether they are men or women are placed in the equal position. In addition, it does not differentiate the group population. Nevertheless, through the authority possessed by the Government as the owner of the right to control the State, it can determine that certain legal entities which undertake social, religious and educational efforts can have property rights over a land.