Problems in the land affairs in Indonesia are numerous, including multiple
certificates and overlapping of land rights so that the authors take the title of "the
role of the land office in resolving the overlapping disputes over land rights to
ensure legal certainty in the ambon region. The purpose of this study is to find out
how the role of land office in solving the dispute overlapping (ownership
overlapping) land that has realized legal certainty in the ambon city. From the title
above, the author is using empirical legal research that is research conducted
directly to the respondent as the main data in addition to secondary data. This
research is done in the area of Ambon city where in the data collection, author
will take 2 (two) districts by purposive from 5 (five) sub districts in Ambon city
area. In the implementation of this research, 10 respondents were taken from three
issues of double-certificate disputes and overlapping of land ownership rights.
Respondents in this study are those who hold double certificates and overlapping
property rights over land located in the ambon city area. From the result of the
research in the land office of Ambon City area there are 3 (three issues of land
ownership dispute which have been resolved by 2 (two) channels through nonlitigation
(outside court or mediation) where there is a dispute overlapping the
land ownership rights 2014 and through litigation (court lane) there is a dispute of
land ownership double certificate in 2016 and land rights overlapping disputes in
2017. From the process of dispute overlapping of land ownership rights through
the municipal office of Ambon realizing the legal certainty in the field of land in
the city of Ambon.