In Makassar, the registration of inherited land before the enactment of Law No. 5 of 1960 on the Regulation of Agrarian Policy (UUPA) was following Regeerings Reglement 1815, which is the law of the collonialism. Those law was the citations of the nation regulation wich was Makassar Government�s (Gowa-Tallo), and the implementation of inherited division had not been registering for the switched rightsholder registration. People didn�t follow the Regeerings Reglement 1815 regulation gradually since UUPA was applied. However, the habit of not registering the inherited land still happening until this day.
The issues for this research defined into 2 (two) research questions. First, how the implementation of the registration of land inherited at Barrang Lompo island? What factors are causing the heiress did not immediately register the land of his inheritance in the National Land Agency?
The result shows that the inherited land laws division that people follow now is customary inheritance law which is parental mayorat inheritance, where the the inheritance come from both lineage, Mother and Father. Afterward, in practice, all of the inheritance distributed to only one heiress in four different ways. The first is I Ulu, which is all of the inheritance distributed to the oldest child. The second is I Bungko , the inheritance division is given to the youngest child. And Sikale-kalenna burakne is when the all of the inheritance is given to the only son in siblings, while sikale-kalenna baine is all of the inheritance is given to the only daughter in siblings. The division of inheritance adheres to the principle of communion based on the agreement between the heiress in running The Pasang or the verbal messages of the heirs when they still alive.
The factors that caused the inherited land has not been registered to National Land Agency are: firtsly, they cannot afford the cost of the registration. Secondly, low education level and the lack of knowledge of about the importance of the legal guarantee benefit in registering the authority land that affect to the low level awareness in it. Thirdly, people think that without registering the inherited land they feel secure about the legal guarantee on their land. It is because they obey the communion customary law based on the principle of harmony based on the agreement between the heirs in running the Pasang.
This research is become the information and the source for the people and National Land Agency of Makassar City about the social condition, economy, and culture of the people in the implementation of inherited land registration of Barrang Lompo Island. And also to know the obstacles that cause people at there not registering their inherited land immediately which this action will be the basic consideration and policy of the Inherited Land Registration by National land agency Makassar City.
Keywords : Implementation of inherited land registration and Barrang Lompo Island, Makassar City