Increasing Community Legal Awareness Regarding Legal Protection of Land Ownership Certificate Holders in Sawahan Village

Abstract

This community service aims to increase public awareness of the legal protection of certificate holders. Registration of land ownership rights, guarantees legal certainty of land ownership rights to legal owners through the issuance of land certificates. Disputes over land ownership often occur in the community because the community needs to understand the legal force of land certificates as proof of rights. Land registration is carried out to provide legal certainty and protection for holders of land ownership certificates in good faith. Public awareness can be increased by understanding legal land ownership in the land registration system. There are 2 methods used in community service, namely, the socialization method and the legal counseling method. The knowledge provided to Partners was in the form of knowledge regarding the law regarding ownership of land certificates, the law in legal ownership of community land rights by statutory regulations, and the legal provisions regarding the land registration system. The results of this community service show that community understanding has increased. The result is indicated by the difference in pre-test and post-test scores administered when the activity was carried out. Communities understand their rights and obligations as owners of land rights legally by laws and regulations through a land registration system.