Sertipikat merupakan alat bukti kepemilikan hak atas tanah yang kuat bagi pemegang haknya.Sertipikat ganda adalah satu bidang tanah diuraikan dalam dua sertipikatatau lebih yang berlainan datanya.Sertipikat ganda membawa dampakketidakpastian hukum, sehingga tidak jarang terjadi sengketa diantara para pihakbahkan sampai ke Pengadilan. Salah satu contoh yaitu kasus tumpang tindih atas kepemilikan suatu bidang tanah yangdiselesaikan melalui Pengadilan adalah sebagaimana terdapat Putusan Peninjauan Kembali Mahkamah Agung RI No. 96 PK/TUN/2007yang terjadi di Desa Citeureup, Kabupaten Bandung, Provinsi Jawa Barat, dimana pada bidang-bidang tanah yang sama,dan sebelumnya telah diterbitkan Sertipikat Hak Milik, diterbitkan Sertipikat Hak Milik yang baru.Dari hasil analisis terhadap Putusan Peninjauan Kembali Mahkamah Agung RI No. 96 PK/TUN/2007,dapat diketahui bahwa terjadinya kasus tumpang tindihantara Hak Milik No. 526/Desa Citeureup dan Hak Milik No. 20/Desa Citeureupdengan Hak Milik No. 00825/Desa Citeureup dan Hak Milik No. 00826/Desa Citeureup, disebabkan tidak dilaksanakannya pendaftaran tanah oleh Kepala Kantor Pertanahan Kabupaten Bandung sesuai dengan tata cara dan prosedur yang telah ditetapkan dalam Peraturan Pemerintah No. 24 Tahun 1997 tentang Pendaftaran Tanah dan Peraturan Menteri Agraria/Kepala Badan Pertanahan Nasional No. 3 Tahun 1997 tentang Ketentuan Pelaksanaan Peraturan Pemerintah No. 24 Tahun 1997. Penyelesaiansengketa dalam kasus ini dilakukan melalui jalur Peradilan (litigasi).

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Certificate serves as a strong evidence for ownership of land by its owner. Double certificate is a plot of land described in two or more certificates which have different data. Double certificate might cause legal uncertainty, thus many disputes occur between the parties on this issue which even have to be settled in the Court. One of the sample of case on overlapping of ownership of a plot of land settled through the Court is as stipulated in Supreme Court Judicial Review Decision No. 96 PK/TUN/2007happened in DesaCiteureup, Regency of Bandung, West Java Province, whereby Certificates of Ownership have been previously issued for the same plots of land, and then new Certificates of Ownership were issued.Based on the result of the analysis on the Supreme Court Judicial Review Decision No. 96 PK/TUN/2007, the overlapping between Ownership of Right No. 526/DesaCiteureupand Ownership of Right No. 20/DesaCiteureupwithOwnership of Right No. 00825/DesaCiteureupand Ownership of Right No. 00826/DesaCiteureup, is due to the fact that land registration process was not properly implemented in accordance with the procedure stipulated in Government Regulation No. 24 of 1997 regarding Land registration and Agrarian Minister/Head of National Land Agency Regulation No. 3 of 1997 regarding Implementation Regulation of Government Regulation No. 24 of 1997 by the Head of Land Office of Bandung Regency. The dispute in this case was settledthrough court (litigation).