PAN: It Is Difficult For The Government To Take Policies If The IKN Bill Has Not Been Realized

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JAKARTA - Member of the Special Committee (Pansus) for the Draft State Capital Bill (IKN), Guspardi Gaus, said that the construction of the new capital city will not use the legal basis of Law 23 of 2014 concerning Regional Autonomy. This is because the involvement of regional autonomy will lead to a very complicated and lengthy bureaucracy.

According to him, the IKN Bill which consists of 9 chapters and 39 articles has so far only been discussed in the Problem Inventory List (DIM) and will soon be discussed at the level of the formulation team (Timus).

In fact, said Guspardi, the IKN Bill must have clear and precise legal reasons that can be used as a basis by the government as a legitimacy tool to enter the development stage.

"If the bill has not materialized, of course it will be difficult for the government to formulate and adopt IKN development policies, including budgeting for development funds," said Guspardi to reporters, Tuesday, January 11.

The PAN politician explained that the IKN development budget reached around Rp. 466.9 trillion, but only 20 percent was allocated from the APBN, which was around Rp. 90 trillion. Meanwhile, Rp. 252.5 trillion of funds came from the cooperation between the government and business entities.

Then, around Rp. 123.2 trillion is budgeted through funding from private schemes or state-owned enterprises (BUMN) and Regional-Owned Enterprises (BUMD).

The funding scheme, said Guspardi, must of course be thoroughly finalized so that it does not burden the state budget if the financing scheme that has been designed does not work as expected. Moreover, the state budget is still focused on budgeting to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic.

"I have criticized long ago. Is now the right moment to move the National Capital when the COVID-19 pandemic is still not over?" asked the legislator from West Sumatra.

The member of Commission II of the DPR RI also emphasized that the affairs and status of land in the prospective capital city must be clear and clean before IKN construction begins. Because the ownership status of the land that will be used as the location of the IKN varies, such as the right to use (HGU), the right to use the building (HGU), land tenure rights (HPL) and land that is owned by the local community.

"This must be resolved completely so as not to create new problems and dynamics in the future," said Guspardi.

Guspardi added that spatial planning and the environment should also be topics that need serious and comprehensive attention. Spatial planning, he said, could start by discussing the structure of the land where the new nation's capital would be located, including the anticipation of flooding and other environmental impacts.

He said, the master plant with systematic and comprehensive planning is intended to be able to answer the challenges ahead and be sustainable in the development of IKN. On the other hand, the Government is targeting that the nation's capital city will soon be moved from Jakarta to East Kalimantan in the first quarter of 2024.

"The clear IKN transfer will be carried out in stages and will begin in the first quarter of 2024," concluded the member of the DPR RI Baleg.