Regarding The Buffer Zone At The Pertamina Plumpang Depot, Minister Hadi Calls It Possible To Give HGB And HGL

Minister of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning/Head of the National Land Agency (ATR/BPN) Hadi Tjahjanto. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - Minister of State-Owned Enterprises (BUMN) Erick Thohir said, after the fire on Friday, March 3, now the Pertamina Plumpang Depot, North Jakarta, a buffer zone will be made or a safe distance from residential areas.

Erick said that the safe area between the fuel depot and residential areas would be limited to 50 meters from the fence to the depot area.

As for the determination of this buffer zone, said Erick, as a follow-up to the direction of President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) to protect the people around the area.

Responding to this, Minister of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning/Head of the National Land Agency (ATR/BPN) Hadi Tjahjanto said that his party would identify land ownership around the Pertamina Plumpang Depot area, North Jakarta.

"Yesterday, I ordered the Head of the Land Office (Kakantah) to go directly to the field to identify (land ownership)," Hadi told reporters at the Shangri-La Hotel, Jakarta, Tuesday, March 7.

If the land belongs to the community, a location (penlok) will be determined for the construction of a buffer zone or buffer zone.

Meanwhile, if the land belongs to PT Pertamina (Persero) as a whole, further discussions will soon be held between the Ministry of ATR/BPN, the Regional Government (Pemda), and Pertamina.

"If it is included in Pertamina's safe zone, we will coordinate it, or else we will provide Building Use Rights (HGB) and Land Use Rights (HGL)," he said.

So that Pertamina will not lose its assets, while the community will still receive the benefits.

On the same occasion, Secretary General (Secretary General) Himawan Arief Sugoto confirmed that the plan to create buffer zones in vital objects and non-vital objects of the country had existed for a long time.

"Regarding the buffer zone, which may now be the incident in Plumpang, it has actually been quite a while, it has been planned for a long time," he said.

The plan, continued Himawan, is that buffer zones will be made such as canals or rivers that surround the 50-meter-wide Pertamina Plumpang Depot area.

"We haven't had any technical discussions yet, we have just communicated through some that Pertamina's friends have conveyed," he added.