VIDEO: Jakarta Is No Longer The Capital City, This Is A Funny Call From Warganet

JAKARTA - Jakarta soon no longer holds the status of the capital city. This of course provoked comments from netizens on various social media platforms. While joking, netizens said that Jakarta is now a Regency.

Chairman of the House of Representatives Baleg Supratman Andi Agtas said Law Number 29 of 2007 concerning DKI Jakarta as the state capital had its status expired on February 15. In the IKN Law Article 41 paragraph 2 discusses a maximum of two years since the law was promulgated, the capital city of Indonesia is regulated based on the IKN Law.

However, the Presidential Special Staff for Legal Affairs, Dini Shanti Purwono, emphasized that Jakarta is still the capital city of Indonesia until now. Dini explained that there are transition provisions that state its function, and the role of the State Capital remains in Jakarta until the date the relocation of the capital city from Jakarta to IKN through a Presidential Decree (Keppres).

Based on Article 39 of the IKN Law, Jakarta remains the State Capital until the issuance of the Presidential Decree on the transfer to the archipelago. It turned out that the news provoked reactions from netizens. The results of VOI searches through social media X @tanyakanrl, netizens gave funny tweets about Jakarta, which is now no longer a city, but a district.

Also, other funny tweets such as: welcome ex-capital city residents or not anymore migrate to the capital city, but migrate to Jakarta Regency Although many have tweeted about Jakarta Regency, it turns out that there are still netizens who explain that Jakarta is still a city, and not a district. Don't worry about the residents of Jakarta, even though the capital city will no longer be, but the business center and economic sector will still be in Jakarta. Watch the video below.