Abstract :
Existence of Lanting Houses for traditional Kalimantan people, especially Banjarmasin people, is a primary need because it their place to live. The life of the Lanting House is now, in the beginning, to be abandoned because the local government is trying to relocate the Lanting House, and there is no legal status of the Lanting House so that many heirs sell the Lanting House only with receipts. Seeing the object of the Lanting House that was built on the water was not able to get ownership rights like on the land, this caused the weak legal force against the object of this Lanting House if it had transitioned rights because an object that was built floats on the water according to the Agrarian Law does not can get land rights. The purpose of this study was to determine the protection obtained by the Lanting House. This study used a normative juridical approach by reviewing and analyzing the laws and regulations and library materials relating to the Lanting House, and the rules used as the basis for the status of the Lanting House. This study used secondary data covering primary legal material in the form of legislation, and secondary licensed content in the form of theories and literature related to the issues discussed. Research showed that the Lanting House could be protected under Law No. 5 of 1960 concerning Basic Rules of Agrarian Principles and Government Regulation No. 40 of 1996 concerning Land Use Rights, Building Use Rights, and Land Use Rights. Where the Lanting House can be given the right to use the building that has been approved by the minister of agrarian and spatial planning so that the Lanting House is recognized as a building that can be given legal certainty.
Keyword :
Agrarian; Building rights; Housing; Lanting House.