Denpasar, Bali, July 7 -- The Bali National Land Agency (BPN) has confirmed that no island in the province is fully owned by foreign nationals, except in cases where they hold cultivation rights or invest in land.

This was stated by Head of the Bali BPN Regional Office, I Made Daging, here on Monday, in response to a recent statement by Minister of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning/National Land Agency (ATR/BPN) Nusron Wahid regarding foreign control of islands in several provinces in Indonesia.

"We have investigated, and there is none, absolutely none," Daging remarked.

"I think what the minister meant was foreign land control in areas like Bali, West Nusa Tenggara, Riau Islands, and Labuan Bajo (East Nusa Tenggara), all of which ...