Ganjar Prioritizes Dialogue For 'Inspective' Mass Organizations In Investment, But Also Ready To Be Hard

Ganjar Pranowo (Photo via Central Java Provincial Government)

JAKARTA - The Governor of Central Java, Ganjar Pranowo, spoke about the challenges faced by regions related to community organizations (ormas) who sometimes move to refuse investment in their area.

This was revealed by Ganjar Pranowo in his role as a keynote speaker on the webinar with the theme 'Determination of Coordination of Integrated Community Organization Supervision Teams in Maintaining Social Social, Political, Security, Peace and Public Order Stability' held by the Ministry of Home Affairs (Kemendagri) on Tuesday, August 1 yesterday.

Ganjar Pranowo highlighted the importance of empowering, training, supervising, and monitoring community organizations in accordance with Permendagri Number 56 of 2017.

He also emphasized the need for early detection through the Integrated Ormas Supervision Team, including the role of Regional BIN, the police, and the TNI in forming an early warning system to anticipate potential problems that arise from mass organizations.

"We do early detection, the role of Regional BIN is important. So there is an early warning system. Of course there is also detection and anticipation from the police, TNI which often blusukan, and in the Forkopimda group there is an early warning system," said Ganjar.

Although Ganjar Pranowo admits that mass organizations can provide benefits to the community, he also admits that sometimes there are bad excesses from mass organization activities. For this reason, he emphasized the importance of a complaint system from the public so that problems can be resolved quickly.

"But there are one or two mass organizations that sometimes exceed. Because a lot of investment entered Central Java, for example yesterday there were (investors) who complained about being disturbed by mass organizations X. I immediately called, approached, talked to what he wanted to say, represented the company, after sitting together, this is a problem in investment, excesses that arise because access is deadlocked," he said.

Ganjar emphasized that rigidity or obstacles in investment should not occur. He is committed to finding the best solution for all parties, by ensuring that business and investment can run smoothly without being disturbed by certain groups.

"If you want to talk about business access, resource access, but you can't stop the investment. We have to be firm and tough when there is this disturbance. Supervision must be active, don't be passive. Local governments must have intelligence, there is a short Intel course at Kesbangpol," said Ganjar.