The five privileges of authority have been regulated under Specialty Law of Yogyakarta Number 13 of 2012 (UUK) in order to fulfill governor positions, land, culture, institutions, and spatial planning affairs. Particularly in regard to fulfilling the Governor position, this law guarantees that Sri Sultan Hamenku Buwono (HB) X reigning and serving as the king to automatically become the Governor of DIY. Therefore, he does not need to consider about how to reach his power over the next 5 years alike governors in other regions in Indonesia. Moreover, this law does not stipulate restrictions on the governor's position limited to only 2 periods. This paper argues that the UUK paved the way for Sri Sultan HB X to control his territory. He organizes, distributes his power, and implements the policy of arranging the sultanate's land in contrast with the basic agrarian law to return the ‘lost’ land belonging to the sultanate upon the implementation of the Basic Agrarian Law. Sri Sultan HB X stipulated a policy of withdrawing and amending the status of village land certificates which was not only perceived as a form of exclusion and restriction but also as part of regional control as well as economic accumulation. He further utilized the historical social support as a justification for amending village treasury land certificates from state land to sultanate lands. In implementing this policy, he implemented the privileged institutions with a different nomenclature from other regions in Indonesia. Thus, such various policies are considered as the forms of his strategy to defend territory. This paper was accomplished through field research conducted from January 2020 to December 2021 in DIY with qualitative methods. The data was obtained through in-depth interviews with competent sources related to the issue of Yogyakarta Special Law Number 13 of 2012 as primary data along with secondary data sources.