The government is currently discussing a plan to implement higher tax rates on unused land, or idle land. The government hopes this will encourage more productive land use, rather than simply hoarding land for investment or as a land bank. The government promises that this progressive tax plan for idle land will not burden the property industry. The condition is that land use is appropriate as a land bank and not left idle to profit from rising land prices.
Several leading property developers own hundreds to thousands of hectares of vacant land intended for property development investment. For example, Sentul City, a Bogor-based company with the stock code BKSL, has a land bank of 14,300 hectares. Meanwhile, Bumi Serpong Damai (BSDE) and Jababeka Industrial Estate (KIJA) have land banks of 4,100 and 3,200 hectares respectively, spread across several regions.
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