Recent Southeast Asian Court Cases: Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand

Repaginated 5 October 2026: content unchanged; pages 606-620 of Vol. 1 No. 2 (formerly 602-616), following the version 1.1.0 corrections to the Foundations entries 000 and 007–010.Baseline survey of court decisions and legislation bearing on real property valuation in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, through the third quarter of 2026. Indonesia: the Hotel Sultan litigation, in which two building-use titles (hak guna bangunan) were held to have expired by operation of law and the occupier was ordered to pay royalties of US$45.4 million, the judgment being executed while administrative proceedings continue; and the voidness of nominee landholding, with Bali's 2026 regulation. Malaysia: the Semantan Estate (Duta Enclave) decision fixing compensation at the market value of the land on 3 December 1956, the date of possession, with six percent interest and mesne profits; the Land Acquisition Act 1960 scheme; Tegas Sejati and Loyal Synergy on disclosure of the assessors' written opinions to the parties; the Court of Appeal's holding that the pandemic extension of vacant-possession time was not a taking; and RHB Bank v Azmi & Co on a panel valuer's negligence. Thailand: the measure, valuation date and betterment set-off, capped at half the compensation, under the 2019 expropriation statute; the Ashton Asoke judgment on land dedicated to the purpose of its taking; and Supreme Court decisions on a divorce agreement and an estate administrator's sale. Indonesian and Thai sources were read in machine translation and are linked at the point of use; items known only from secondary reports are marked.