Supported By The Governor's Decree, The South Kalimantan Provincial Government Destroyed 2,113 Archives 3 SKPD Institutions 1980-2014

Head of South Kalimantan Dispersip Nurliani Dardie while leading the destruction of 2,112 files in Banjarbaru City, South Kalimantan, Wednesday (18/10/2023). (ANTARA/HO-Dispersip South Kalimantan)

SOUTH Kalimantan - Provincial Government (Pemprov) destroyed 2,113 archives of three regional work unit (SKPD) institutions from the 1980-2014 period.

"The destruction of this archive aims to make the maintenance of archival storage facilities and infrastructure more efficient within the South Kalimantan Provincial Government," said Head of the South Kalimantan Library and Archives Service (Dispersip) Nurliani Dardie in Banjarbaru, Wednesday, October 18, quoted by Antara.

Nurliani said the destroyed archives came from three SKPD within the South Kalimantan Provincial Government, namely the Library and Archives Service for the 1980-2014 period as many as 1,592 files, the Department of Cooperatives for Small and Medium Enterprises for the 2003-2010 period as many as 320 files, and the Department of Energy and Mineral Resources for the 1989-2005 period as many as 200 files.

"The destruction of this archive has received approval from the Indonesian National Archives and is supported by a Decree (SK) of the Governor of South Kalimantan," he said.

He said the destruction had also gone through the assessment and research stages of the South Kalimantan Dispersip extermination team.

The destruction of the archives was witnessed by relevant officials, namely the South Kalimantan Regional Inspectorate, the South Kalimantan Regional Legal Bureau, as well as the assessment and destruction team from the South Kalimantan Dispersip.

Nurliani explained that during his tenure, he had previously destroyed the archives six times, including in 2018 the destruction of the South Kalimantan DATI I Inspectorate archive as many as 294 files in the period 1992-2001.

Then in 2019 the destruction of the archives of the Financial Bureau of the South Kalimantan Level I Secretariat was 870 files in the period 1963-1995.

In April 2020, the destruction of archives from the Personnel Bureau of the South Kalimantan Level I Regional Secretariat was 26,585 files in the period 1973-1987. Then, in the same year, November, the destruction of archives from six provincial SKPDs was 21,487 files from the period 1967-2005.

Furthermore, in May 2021 the destruction of the archives of five SKPDs was 7,026 files for the period 1971-2005. In August 2022 again destroyed the archives of three SKPDs as many as 3,090 files for the period 1960-2009.