Every indigenous community has customary rights, and so does the Marind Anim
community in Merauke Regency, South Papua Province. The Marind Anim
customary law community has the right to receive compensation for land
acquisition for Mopah Airport, Merauke Regency, South Papua Province.
However, during the second compensation payment, the Marind Anim customary
law community who had land rights did not receive compensation. In connection
with this problem, normative research is carried out, namely focusing on positive
legal norms as secondary data as the main data. The payment of compensation to
the Malind Anim customary law community was mispaid in the second stage in
2010, this happened because there was an error at the stage of the compensation
process that was not by the applicable law. Merauke district government as the
person in charge handed over the compensation process in the second stage to team
7 (seven). The obstacle in the compensation process is that the government does not
play an active role in the compensation process. Until now the compensation
process for the Marind Anim customary law community for customary land is
related to land acquisition for the construction of the Mopah Merauke airport in
South Papua Province has not been completed, the Malin Anim indigenous people
who the right to compensation is still asking the government but there is no definite
process.