Members Of The House Of Representatives Yakin NU And Muhammadiyah Manage Mining Implementing The Principle Of Prudence

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Member of Commission VII DPR Nasyirul Falah Amru believes that religious community organizations (ormas) business entities that manage special mining business permits (WIUPK) will apply the precautionary principle.

"The allocation of coal mining management to religious organizations will use the principle of prudence and efforts to minimize environmental damage will be a major concern," said the man who is familiarly called Gus Falah, quoted by ANTARA, Tuesday, July 30.

He considered that the government's decision to affirm the management of coal mines to religious organizations including the Nahdlatul Ulama (PBNU) and Muhammadiyah Executive Board was a policy that not only considered business aspects, but also the environment.

According to him, PBNU's prudence in the mining business is one of them by determining partners and management models that pay attention to environmental sustainability.

"The environment is not only in the context of nature, but also does not cause conflict in the community around the mining environment," he said,

Gus Falah added, in terms of professionalism, management, accountability, and the principle of benefit for benefit will also be prioritized considering that religious organizations have the awareness that the business license is for the benefit of the people.

PBNU's decision to accept the government's offer regarding the coal mining management permit, he said, was related to the orientation of the benefit politics of the people who had opened their understanding.

The understanding in question is that natural resource management (SDA) should not be fully left to the conglomerate.

He explained that the advantages of religious organizations in managing the mine also have the opportunity to be used as organization's endowment funds which are then invested in instruments provided by the state such as bonds or sukuk.

"For example, in NU, for example, this will become an endowment fund to be invested in sukuk or bonds, instead the proceeds can be for a kind of BOS Pesantren and so on," said Gus Falah.

Previously, President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) said that granting mining permits for religious organizations was the government's effort to support economic equality.

The statement was made by President Jokowi in response to the news that the Muhammadiyah Central Executive decided to accept a mining business permit (IUP), following a similar decision first submitted by Nahdlatul Ulama (NU).