What the regional secretary said
Bali's provincial regional secretary (Sekda) Dewa Made Indra spoke in Denpasar on Thursday 5 November 2026 at a coordination meeting on corruption prevention and better governance for Bali's local governments. He told the task force of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) about technical difficulties the province and the regencies face in certifying government-owned assets (barang milik daerah).
In his words, an application to the land agency BPN needs supporting data that must be found, completed and confirmed. For that reason the work will not end in a year or two. Starting documents on the ground are often incomplete, so the process advances step by step.
Why the asset list keeps growing
Governments buy new plots every year for public facilities. Dewa Indra gave provincial examples: the Denpasar–Singaraja shortcut road and the Bali Cultural Center area. By his account such plots must be certified anew, and this goes on all the time.
The list also covers other items bought with public money: irrigation networks, waste processing sites and regional hospitals. As a result, taking stock of assets never stops.
A request to regency heads
The secretary asked all regents, mayors and regional secretaries in Bali to keep funding for asset registration steady in their budgets. He said the money for certifying assets must stay available every year.
This is a request and a provincial position and not a new rule. The source names no amounts and no deadlines for the regencies.
Overlapping certificates in Buleleng
Officials named specific problems. These are disputes over leftover land after area reorganisation and overlaps in ownership with residents. In Buleleng regency there are still cases where a hak pakai certificate (right of use) issued to the government overlaps with an SHM certificate (freehold) held by a resident.
For private owners this is telling. Overlaps arise when boundaries and a plot's history are not reconciled in one database.
How to read these terms
SHM (sertifikat hak milik) is freehold title, the fullest form of right to land. Hak pakai is a right of use for a limited term, often held by government bodies and by foreigners. BPN (Badan Pertanahan Nasional) is the land agency that keeps the register of certificates.
Warkah is the dossier of a land file: the deeds, surveys and decisions on which a certificate rests. If the dossier is lost, the history of the right must be rebuilt from copies and records, which takes time. This is the situation officials described.
The account shows something else too: even when a record of the right exists, a missing paper original slows the transfer of a plot. This applies to private deals as well.
A lost certificate between Badung and Denpasar
In the urban area, the transfer of assets between Badung regency and Denpasar city was slowed by the loss of land file archives (warkah). The secretary cited an office plot in the Lumintang area. At handover a record existed, but the physical certificate could not be found, possibly burned in an old fire.
Because of this, the change of title for public facilities from Badung to Denpasar was held up for a time. The province convened a reconciliation meeting with all parties and BPN. Dewa Indra said they agreed to resolve the matter.