Denpasar Reports 1,867 Certified Municipal Land Plots

In brief: Denpasar's mayor presented the city's land certification figures on 5 November 2026. The figures concern publicly owned property, including roads and civic facilities; they do not establish new rights over privately owned real estate.

Roads make up most of the certified holdings

At a Bali-wide meeting on corruption prevention and local government asset management, Mayor I Gusti Ngurah Jaya Negara reported certificates for 1,867 of Denpasar's 1,925 recorded municipal land plots. The city gave the certification rate as 96.99% for its position through the third quarter of 2026 and assigned the certified holdings a combined value of approximately Rp3.46 trillion.

Road land accounts for 1,308 plots, valued at around Rp2.45 trillion. A further 180 plots, worth Rp65.17 billion, are used for social and public facilities. The remaining 379 plots fall into other municipal land categories and are valued at Rp951.58 billion. Taken together, the numbers describe a land asset register. They are not receipts from land sales, a cash saving of the same amount, or evidence that additional private development sites are now available.

The event was part of a broader push to document local government property across Bali. In its 6 November account of the meeting, the provincial government said certification involves land-office coordination and supporting records, and can take time to complete. Stronger public records may help authorities establish responsibility for land and facilities, but the announcement contains no evidence of a change in housing prices or private building permissions.

A 2026–2027 target, with an unresolved numerical discrepancy

Denpasar plans to continue obtaining certificates during 2026 and 2027, subject to the required documentation and procedures. Reports of the mayor's presentation also refer to 74 plots without certificates. That figure does not reconcile with the same reports' total of 1,925 plots and 1,867 certified plots, which leaves 58. No explanation for the discrepancy was available in the published accounts, so the precise number still awaiting certification remains unresolved.

The certificates in this announcement belong to the city. Anyone renting or buying a home still needs the records for the privately held villa or apartment and its land. The report does not validate a particular development, resolve an access dispute, or amend the rules that apply to foreign buyers. Where a property relies on a road, access strip or neighbouring public land, the relevant parcel records still need to be established for that specific location. A citywide completion percentage cannot answer that question.