Right to cultivate (HGU) has been a source of controversy as of late. The debate began with President Joko Widodo’s remark to Prabowo Subianto in a presidential debate in February. Jokowi said his competitor in the presidential race owned 220,000 hectares of land in East Kalimantan and 120,000 hectares in Central Aceh. In response, Prabowo said the HGU land belonged to the state and that he would be willing to return it.

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