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4. Secure copy of Title at the Register of Deeds Concerned.

The Charter indicates that the service will take approximately 24 days, and requires three kinds of
payments: Application Fee of PhP 50.00, and (Documentary) Stamp of PhP 15.00 / doc, and a “Cadastral
Cost” which would depend on the size of the area and number of corners, etc.

Comparative Data about Titling Costs and Duration in Other Countries

A review on the land titling process in neighboring countries was also undertaken by the study
team. It was observed that most of the research studies available on costing and duration of the titling
process in neighboring Southeast Asian countries refer to systematic land titling.

The Lao Land Titling Projects (LTP) I and II between 1997 and 2009 piloted systematic land
registration in Lao PDR. However, to date, there is still no comprehensive approach to systematic land
surveying, registration and titling in rural areas.

Thailand had a successful Land Administration and Management Program because of a strong
policy, institutional and legal framework to back up program implementation. At the end of 2001, they were
able to issue more than 18 million titles which generated over 4 million transactions during that year.

The Indonesian Land Administration Project (LAP) supported a program of accelerated registration
of land rights that was expected to be cheaper, faster and simpler than the sporadic registration process
conducted by its National Land Agency. After two years of small-scale pilot work, systematic land
certification began on a large scale in Project Year 3 (1996/97), focusing on West Java, then continuing on
to Jakarta, the Special Area of Yogyakarta and the Provinces of West Java, Central Java and East Java.
In 1999, LAP certification was extended to regions off Java with the introduction of pilot projects in the urban
areas of Palembang (South Sumatra) and Medan (North Sumatra).

Tony Burns, the Managing Director of the Land Equity Ltd., is an acknowledged expert in project
design, land policy review, evaluation of cadastral survey and mapping procedures, land titling, land
administration and spatial information systems. In his presentation during a workshop on Land and Property
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Rights in Bangsamoro in June 2014, he said that a title typically costs USD10-15 in Laos, USD27 in
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Thailand , and IDR36,449 (USD3.9) in Indonesia. Titling (from application to registration) takes less than
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90 days in Thailand , 69 days in Indonesia , and 160 to 270 days in Laos .
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5 Florian Rock, Systematic Land Registration in Rural Areas of Lao PDR (Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale
Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, 2015), 43.
6 Burns, Thailand’s 20 year program to title rural land, 7.
7 SMERU Research Institute, An Impact Evaluation of Systematic Land Titling under the Land Administration Project (LAP), 20.
8 Anthony Burns, Thailand’s 20 year program to title rural land (Washington D.C.: World Bank, 2005), 6.
9 SMERU Research Institute, An Impact Evaluation of Systematic Land Titling under the Land Administration Project (LAP) (Jakarta:
The SMERU Research Institute, 2002), 21.
10 Florian Rock, Viladeth Sisoulath, Christian Metzger, Souksavath Chanhtangeun, Xaysana Phayalath, Julian Derbidge,
Systematic Land Registration in Rural Areas of Lao PDR (Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
GmbH, 2015), 16.

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