Expanding the Sarawak LADM Country Profile with Valuation Information – Towards a Unified Land Administration Model

Resumo

In striving to modernize Sarawak’s land administration system, this paper aims to bridge persistent gaps between legal, spatial, and valuation information by expanding the state’s LADM Country Profile to include comprehensive valuation data. Current fragmented systems lead to inefficiencies including outdated property assessments, especially for complex, mixed-use developments such as strata properties in rapidly urbanizing cities like Kuching. By leveraging the updated LADM Edition II standard alongside Building Information Modelling (BIM), this study proposes a unified data model which aligns legal rights, spatial units, and valuation attributes within a single digital framework. Through data collection, conceptual modeling, and stakeholder validation with Sarawak’s land administration authorities, the paper demonstrates how this integrated approach could enhance transparency and improve sustainable urban development.