Jakarta, Aug. 11 -- Minister of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning Nusron Wahid stated that Indonesia's land service transformation aims to close systemic loopholes exploited by the land mafia or land grabbers.

"The mafia thrives wherever there are loopholes and grey areas," he said in a statement in Jakarta on Tuesday.

Nusron affirmed that his ministry continuously makes efforts to close loopholes for the land mafia by accelerating service turnaround times, supported by the integration of land registry data with local government databases.

Discrepancies between local government data and national land registries-such as differences between the Tax Object Number (NOP) and the Land Parcel Identification Number (NIB)-often become looph...