The AMIN National Team Says There Is No Need For The Law To Build 40 Cities Equivalent To Jakarta, But Need A Ministry-level Agency

JAKARTA - The National Team Advisory Council (Timnas) Anies Baswedan-Muhaimin Iskandar (AMIN) said there was no need for a legal basis at the level of law (UU) to build 40 cities equivalent to Jakarta.

"I stay at the outline of our opinion earlier, there is no need for a basis at the level of law, it is not even needed at the level of government regulations for that," said a member of the AmIN Awalil Rizky National Team Advisory Council as reported by ANTARA, Friday, January 12.

Awalil said regulations governing city development were already available in Indonesia.

That way, what is needed to realize the construction of 40 cities equivalent to Jakarta is a ministry-level agency.

"The agency at the level of possibility or under the ministry, urban bodies, for example, is to ensure the orientation direction of the outline of the strategy," he explained.

In addition, Awalil assessed that the development gap in Indonesia was not caused by the absence of regulations, but the loss of the leader's desire to realize equitable development.

"So, it's not that there are no legal products, but there is no political will," he said.