Satit critiques seven years of the National Land Policy Committee, declaring it has failed to address land inequality. He exposes that the One Map project is less than halfway complete and urges Anutin to reveal his vision on community land deeds.
On 2 April 2026, during a parliamentary session, Satit Wongnongtoey, Member of Parliament for the Democrat Party, commented on the 2021 report from the Office of the National Land Policy Committee (NLP Committee). He pointed out that although the Community Land Titling Act has been in effect since 2019 and operations have continued for over seven years with a substantial budget, the core mission to resolve land inequality has completely failed. Alarming data shows that out of 128 million rai of titled land in Thailand (34 million plots), only 25% of the population holds land titles, while 75% still lack their own farmland. The goal to allocate over 5 million rai under the community land titling program has resulted in only about 400,000 rai allocated. This is because government agencies holding various land laws refuse to cede areas for the NLP Committee to manage, or even when land is allocated, the communities are not allowed to manage it themselves.
One Map project stuck, progress less than half complete.
Regarding the integrated mapping of state land boundaries, known as One Map, Satit stated that the annual report shows severe delays. Of the six to seven regional groups, only two have completed the work. Critical areas such as overlapping state lands—like forests and agricultural land under different agencies—or farmland where the state has issued overlapping claims have only reached 30-50% progress. No agency has officially accepted these maps due to reluctance to relinquish control over land holdings.
Calls on Anutin to reveal his vision.
Toward the end, Satit expressed regret that the previous government had attempted to cancel the "land bank" mechanism, which civil society has pushed for over 10 years since the Democrat government era, along with "community land deeds."
"Land for farming remains a major crisis, yet we have never heard any vision from the next prime minister, Anutin Charnvirakul, on how he plans to solve this. Will he continue with community land deeds and the land bank? We will see at the government policy announcement," Satit said. Satit concluded with this statement.