The Government Is Advised To Make Jabodetabek A New Province Named The Greater Jakarta Special Region After The Capital Has Moved

JAKARTA - Executive Director of the Jakarta Study Committee (KKJ) Syaifuddin suggested that the government maintain Jakarta's privileged status in the plan to move the country's capital city (IKN) to East Kalimantan.

Syaifuddin recommended that the area in Jakarta be expanded by combining the Jabodetabek agglomeration area into a single province called the Greater Jakarta Special Region.

"Maintain the privilege of Jakarta to become a new province called the Greater Jakarta Special Region and expand the area by uniting the areas of Bogor, Depok, Tangerang and Bekasi," said Syaifuddin in a public discussion in Jakarta, Sunday, February 20.

Syaifuddin explained the reasons for the recommendation for the establishment of the Greater Jakarta Special Region province. In the historical dimension, Jakarta has a high historical value as the nation's capital city.

In the economic dimension, Jakarta has advanced infrastructure as well as a center for trade and business, education and health.

"On the geographical dimension, Jakarta as a metropolitan city needs an area expansion by combining the Jakarta buffer area, considering that the buffer area is closer to the center of government in Jakarta than the provincial capital," he said.

Then in the cultural and emotional dimensions, the majority of the residents of the Jakarta buffer zone are also ethnically Betawi. Then in the dimensions of regulation and policy, the Jakarta government needs to take quick and appropriate policies to overcome the problems that exist in Jakarta.

"In the dimension of equitable development, it encourages the growth of economic development in the buffer areas to be more even," he said.

For information, this recommendation is a response to the government's request to the public to provide input regarding the concept of Jakarta in the future after it is no longer the nation's capital.

This was done based on the results of discussions and studies involving many parties, such as religious leaders, community leaders, youth leaders, women leaders, academics and activists in Jakarta.