The Minister Of Energy And Mineral Resources Will Form A New Unit To Eradicate Illegal Mines

Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Arifin Tasrif (Photo: Doc. Antara)

The rise of illegal mines makes the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) in the process of forming a law enforcement unit (Gakkum).

Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Arifin Tasrif said the formation of this Law Enforcement was to anticipate illegal mines that were increasingly troubling.

"We agree that the process of forming Gakkum is in the process within the ministry unit," he said in a meeting with Commission VII DPR RI quoted on Friday, February 3.

Regarding the formation process, he continued, the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources has written to the Ministry of Administrative Reform and Bureaucratic Reform (KemenPAN-RB) regarding the pre-case permit for the formation of the Directorate General of Law and is expected to start running next month.

Later, continued Arifin, this Gakkum Unit will involve the Law Enforcement Officials (APH).

"The possibility of a case task force because it involves an APH agency which we will coordinate and communicate on how to implement it. Later we will think about merging into a tax unit in the future, so we have the right team," explained Arifin.

Present at the same agreement, Acting Director General of Mineral and Coal at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, Idris Sihite, admitted that he was optimistic that the Gakkum Unit would start working in the middle of this year.

"Hopefully the presence of the Directorate General of Law and Human Rights will be more focused because there is a special institution. I am optimistic, God willing, this year, yes, thank God, in the middle of this year there will be a harmonization process," said Idris.

Idris also said that later while waiting for the formation of the Directorate General of Law and Human Rights, his party would form a special task force (Satgasus).

"If the task force is temporal in nature, it is one echelon unit. So the level of the Director General of Law and Human Rights is currently being discussed intensively. So the ball is in the Ministry of Manpower who has the prechase permit at the Ministry of Manpower and Bureaucratic Reform," concluded Idris.