This syndicate used to disguise themselves as buyers and falsify documents, including land certificates, deeds related to sale and purchase, and identification cards of the owners.
Metro Jaya Regional Police officers reveal the land mafia syndicate at a press conference in Jakarta, Wednesday (12/2/2020).
The land mafia operation involves financiers, notaries and employees of the National Land Agency (BPN). They disguise themselves as buyers.JAKARTA, KOMPAS — Land mafias are spread widely in Jakarta. They keep their on eyes on mansions with elderly owners or properties that their heirs are trying to sell.
A Kompas investigation discovered that the land mafia in Jakarta involved financiers, brokers, notaries or land deed making officers (PPAT) and employees at district offices, up to BPN officers. This syndicate used to disguise themselves as buyers and falsify documents, including land certificates, deeds related to sale and purchase, and identification cards of the owners. While acting as the property buyers, the land mafia was able to pay large down payments to convince victims to hand over the original certificates.
After the original certificates were handed over, the perpetrators then falsified them. The original certificates would be used by the head of the syndicate as collateral for debt to the cooperative and bank, as a mortgage, or traded. The fake certificates were given to the property owners.
Specifically, the land mafia in Jakarta is eyeing houses or properties with a value of more than Rp 10 billion and located in South Jakarta where the price is quite high.
There are at least four land mafia groups in Jakarta that are interconnected. They are led respectively by DR, AS, SD, and FK. From the examination of files in court as well as files of police investigations, there are 13 criminal and civil cases involving land matters from the four groups.
The link among land mafias can be seen from the same members of the two groups. The DR and AS groups, for example, have the same syndicate member, namely Derus.
Changing ownership
Derus plays a role in falsifying documents, especially land certificates. He and the AS group are suspected of falsifying a land certificate at Jalan Sekolah Duta, South Jakarta, which belongs to the parents of former Deputy Foreign Minister Dino Patti Djalal. From police records, this gang illegally changed ownership of the certificate in 2019.
Kompas/Riza Fathoni
A number of evidences from the land mafia syndicate case and counterfeiting electronic ID cards were released at a press conference in Jakarta, Wednesday (12/2/2020).
In other cases, Derus played a role in exchanging original certificates for fake certificates. Generally, certificate exchange is carried out when checking the authenticity of the certificates at BPN. One of them was done by Derus when he acted with the AS at Indra\'s house, on Jalan Brawijaya, South Jakarta.When targeting Vannie\'s certificate on Jalan Kebagusan, South Jakarta, together with the DR group, Derus acted as a staff of the notary who received the original certificate from the owner of the house. In Derus\' hand, the ownership of the certificate was illegally transferred to DR.
Derus\' name was also written in the letter of complaint against a fake notary with the initials RH, 40, in the case of fraud and embezzlement of a house on Jalan Wijaya, South Jakarta. This crime occurred in 2019. At the trial at the South Jakarta District Court, April 6, 2021, RH was sentenced to 3 years in prison.
In fact, the house seller died on March 31, 2016, and his wife died on Dec. 26, 2015. Meanwhile, the home sale and purchase process was carried out by the owner\'s heir.
In the demand file against RH, Derus was named as a witness at the signing of the sale and purchase deed (AJB) on June 21, 2019. The PPAT who made the AJB mentioned that the husband and wife of the seller, the buyer, and two witnesses -- including Derus -- were present before him. In fact, the house seller died on March 31, 2016, and his wife died on Dec. 26, 2015. Meanwhile, the home sale and purchase process was carried out by the owner\'s heir.
RH has also been involved in a number of other cases. He generally acted as a fake notary or staff a fake notary. Armed with experience working in a notary office in 2008, RH was involved in issuing deeds related to the sale and purchase of houses. When together with AS in the fraud case of the sale and purchase of Indra\'s house on Jalan Brawijaya in 2019, RH became a fake notary based in Tebet. RH received the original certificate for the house on Jalan Brawijaya handed over by the owner.
KOMPAS/ICHWAN SUSANTO
The Team for the Acceleration of Land Tenure Settlement in Forest Areas, namely Coordinating Minister for the Economy Darmin Nasution, Minister of Environment and Forestry Siti Nurbaya Bakar, Minister of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning / Head of the National Land Agency Sofyan A Djalil, and Presidential Chief of Staff Moeldoko, Tuesday (5/6 / 2018) in Jakarta, providing direction at the National Working Meeting with a number of officials from 26 provinces.
In the case of the Melawai house, RH signed the receipt for the land certificate from the notary office. The authenticity of the land certificate should be checked at the BPN office. However, in RH\'s hand, the ownership of the certificate was even changed.
The role of the brokers for buying and selling property is also important for the land mafia. In the case of the house on Jalan Brawijaya that involved AS, there was a role for the broker with the initials LM in finding buyers of a house whose certificates had been faked. LM\'s name reappeared in a case allegedly committed by the FK group when targeting the house belonging to Dino Patti Djalal\'s parents at Executive Paradise in 2020. LM became a broker who actively acted in preparing the need to change the name of the certificate.
The involvement of a notary/PPAT in the land mafia network also occurred in the case of manipulation of ownership of Tono Amboro\'s house on Jalan Ciledug Raya by DR in 2017. DR used the services of a notary/PPAT that could make the transfer of ownership quickly. The Rp 25 billion house illegally changed hands, in less than a month.
In another case, DR and a notary with the initials NYZ were ordered by the South Jakarta District Court to pay immaterial compensation worth Rp 2 billion to the plaintiff. It was decided that the plaintiff with the initials IS was the legal owner of the land on Jalan Soepomo. The verdict, dated Sept. 24, 2019, also canceled the Sale and Purchase Agreement (PPJB) Number 2 dated Oct. 10, 2018, which was made by notary NYZ because it was made with malicious intent and violated the law. IS also criminalized DR, and the process is still ongoing.
Most of the cases occurred between 2017 and 2019. As of April 2021, DR was still at the Pondok Bambu Penitentiary, East Jakarta.
From the tracing of a number of case files, DR was said to be an active figure and coordinated all stages of crime. Most of the cases occurred between 2017 and 2019. As of April 2021, DR was still at the Pondok Bambu Penitentiary, East Jakarta.
Certificate forgery
The head of the Jakarta Police Property Sub-Directorate, Adj. Sr. Comr. Dwiasi Wiyatputera, said that DR and AS were land mafia where their crimes were committed by two or more people by falsifying documents, ranging from identities of the figures, fake deeds, to fake certificates.
Junior Gregorius, DR\'s lawyer, confirmed that his client had repeatedly manipulated land ownership. "I myself believe he is the mafia. Primarily, the case is not new," he said.
Besides notaries/PPAT, the land mafia also involves government officials. The AS network, for example, involved DO, a former contract employee in Pamulang district, South Tangerang, Banten, when targeting Indra\'s house on Jalan Brawijaya. DO made fake ID cards with the names Indra and his wife, Nadine. These fake ID cards were used by the fake figures who acted as Indra and Nadine during the buying and selling process.
KOMPAS/HENDRA A SETYAWAN
ILLUSTRATION: The former Kayu Antap reservoir has changed its function and is owned by a private company in the East Ciputat area, South Tangerang, Banten, Saturday (28/9/2019). Kayu Antap reservoir is one of the few sites in South Tangerang whose function has been conversed through the issuance of freehold titles/building rights titles by the National Land Agency.
Director General of Land Disputes and Conflict Handling of the Agrarian and Spatial Planning Ministry/BPN RB Agus Widjayanto admitted that BPN employees were involved in the operations of the land mafia. One of them happened in the process of changing the name. "Confirmed, there is (involvement). (Once) the Inspector General came down to investigate, then (those who were proven to be involved) were punished, from the lightest to the dismissal, that does exist," he said.
Agus confirmed that another loophole that allows the involvement of BPN employees is certificate forgery. "It can be done through cooperation, taking blanks from within," he said. (NIA/BKY/ART)
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