All States To Use e-Tanah Land Administrative System By 2008
Bernama 17/11/2005

PUTRAJAYA, Nov 17 (Bernama) -- All states will use fully the "e-tanah" system for land application matters by 2008, Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said.

He said the Penang Municipal Council (MPPP) has been selected to launch the system soon as a pilot project in handling several land matters.

Speaking to reporters after chairing a meeting of the National Land Council here today, he said the "e-tanah" project was being speeded up with the appointment of I-Launch Sdn Bhd as the system provider and developer.

Najib said the scope of "e-tanah" covered 24 primary land administrative matters, which include disposal of land given title and temporary occupation licence, registration of ownership, application for sub-division, redelineation of boundary and merger of land, application for approval of mortgage transfer and quit rent.

He said some states have introduced their own system to speed up land administration.

"The Natural Resource and Environment Ministry will streamline all these systems with the cooperation of the respective state governments in order to upgrade the administration of land through usage of information communication technology," he added.

On the special task force formed in March 2004 in the federal Land and Mines Department to help clear the backlog in land matters, he said much progress had been achieved.

He said Penang, Melaka and Kuala Lumpur Federal Territory have achieved a 100 per cent success rate in the issuance of land titles while three states exceeded 50 per cent success rate.

They are Johor (69.75 per cent), Pahang (61.29 per cent) and Negeri Sembilan (50.8 per cent).

"In registering and issuance of strata titles, the overall success rate is 76.73 per cent while it is 28.83 success rate for conversion of temporary titles to permanent titles, that is 779,872 cases out of the total 2,705,074 cases pending," he said.

-- BERNAMA