Evaluation of Participatory Mapping to Develop Parcel-Based Maps for Village-Based Land Registration Purpose

Abstract

Validating land boundaries and their ownership status have become a huge task to be completed by local land offices in Indonesia. In order to accelerate the validation process, government-facilitated participatory mapping processes which have been endorsed by many local land offices. This study examines the applicability of participatory approaches in validating land boundaries for supporting land registration processes. Aerial photo-map was used as the base to plot land parcels, which later was used to produce a working map. Field surveys were conducted to verify land boundaries. The availability of participatory land parcel map was not only useful to accelerate land registration processes, but was also able to serve as a visual tool which helps anticipating boundary disputes and land development at village level. The results of the study shown that participatory map contributed in improving quality of land registration map but suffers level of detailing in respect to actual shape and area of land boundaries.