Governing Land-Status Uncertainty in Local Development Planning: An Institutional Analysis and Development Theory-to-Practice Review
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https://doi.org/10.70062/djls.v2i3.199Keywords:
Institutional Analysis Development, Land Governance, Land-Status Uncertainty, Local Development Planning, Public AdministrationAbstract
Land-status uncertainty can obstruct local development planning when incomplete or contested records, unclear claimant recognition, and overlapping authority prevent proposals from moving through planning, authorization, budgeting, and implementation. This article examines that public-administration problem using the verified planning concern in Sembakung Atulai Subdistrict, Nunukan Regency, Indonesia, as a bounded phenomenon. It asks how the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework explains the relevant actors, rules, information conditions, and decision mechanisms; what applications and criticisms reveal about the framework’s conditions and boundaries; and how the synthesis can inform context-sensitive administrative options. A theory-focused narrative literature review used five documented search runs in Scopus restricted to English-language articles and reviews in journals at final publication stage. From 568 exported records, 130 duplicates were removed and 438 unique records were screened; 40 verified full-text journal articles formed the corpus. The synthesis shows that land-status uncertainty is best understood as a configuration of linked action situations in which information becomes consequential only when rules-in-use and competent authority connect evidence to reviewable decisions. It also shows that baseline IAD requires explicit attention to institutional plurality, power, linked arenas, administrative capacity, and feedback. The article translates these findings into five connected domains: land-status information and verification; claimant recognition and dispute routing; cross-level coordination and decision integration; rule operationalization and administrative capacity; and power-aware accountability and adaptive review. The contribution is conceptual-translational; the framework is a procedural diagnostic and neither determines legal land status nor establishes causal effectiveness.
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