Land Administration in Supporting Digital Era: An Experience and Effect to the Land Acquisition

Land administration and management is the heart of development. This sector is mainly concerned with public sector services, as in Malaysia, where land transactions are governed and executed by the land office. The advancement of technology should also be adopted in the land administration and management sector. This paper seeks to explain the experience of Malaysian land administration in adopting digital technologies and transformation. Qualitative methods of content analysis and thematic analysis are used in construing the experience and its effect on the land administration. Some of the findings are the evolution of the land administration in digitalizing the sector, the design of the system and the factors for the adoption of digital technology. This paper recommends that policy should focus on comprehensive collaboration between institutions involved in land matters and provide an enabling legal framework.