Background
Land administration for indigenous communities in Cambodia operates through cadastral registration under the national land management system and the Land Law. Collective ownership registration is the cadastral mechanism used in Cambodia to record land held by an indigenous community as a communal property right rather than as individual private plots.
Cadastral registration creates an official land record that identifies a parcel, location, area, ownership status, and legally recognized rights. Provincial land management departments carry out technical land registration work under the institutional framework of the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction.
Indigenous communal land registration supports land governance by clarifying recognized ownership and the boundaries of registered community land. In provinces such as Ratanakiri, cadastral records are a core administrative tool for documenting community land rights and reducing uncertainty over land status.
Key Developments
The Ratanakiri Provincial Administration, through the Ratanakiri Provincial Department of Land Management, Urban Planning, Construction and Cadastre, registered Prao indigenous community land parcel No. 090.
The registered parcel measures 0.2344 hectares and is located in Tumpuon Reung Thom village, Ta Veng Krom commune, Ta Veng district, Ratanakiri province.
The Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction stated that the Prao indigenous community land was registered as collective ownership according to cadastral technical procedures and the Land Law.
Institutional Role
The provincial land management department functions as the local cadastral authority for recording land parcels, preparing land registration documentation, and linking local registration work to the national land administration system.
The ministry announcement identifies the land as being held by the president of the Prao Indigenous Community of Tumpuon Reung Thom village, Ta Veng Krom commune, Ta Veng district.
Operational Implications
The registration gives parcel No. 090 an official cadastral record with a stated area, location, parcel number, and collective ownership status.
For land administration, the entry provides a reference point for future verification of the parcel’s legal status within the cadastral system. For the community, the registration records the land as collective property rather than as individually held land.
