KLHK: Hearing Meeting (RDP) With Commission IV Of The House Of Representatives Did Not Invite Minister Siti Nurbaya

Minister of Environment and Forestry Siti Nurbaya accompanying President Joko Widodo when reviewing the Rumpin Modern Nursery (Photo: BPMI Setpres/Muchlis Jr)

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK) straightened out the confusing information regarding the Hearing Meeting (RDP) with Commission IV of the Indonesia House of Representatives, Monday, November 22 yesterday.

In that meeting, the Minister of Environment and Forestry Siti Nurbaya Bakar was not invited, because yesterday it was an invitation from the RDP with Echelon 1 of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, not the Commission IV Working Meeting (Raker) of the Indonesia House of Representatives with the Minister of Environment and Forestry.

Hearing Meeting (RDP) members of Commission IV Indonesia House of Representatives with KLHK were attended by Echelon 1 officials at the Parliament Complex, Senayan, Jakarta, last Monday.

Minister Siti herself was not absent at the meeting, but indeed yesterday's RDP was not a meeting with the Minister.

"The event is RDP with Echelon 1, so the Minister was not invited. The new Working Meeting with the Minister", said Secretary-General of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Bambang Hendroyono, Tuesday, November 23, responding to questions via short messages. answers about massive development and deforestation that are widely discussed by the public.

The narrative that develops on social media is as if Minister Siti is running away from the responsibility to explain officially to the House of Representatives.

In fact, there was no invitation to Minister Siti Nurbaya.

"The Minister was indeed not invited by the House of Representatives, because it was a Hearing Meeting with Echelon 1, not a Working Meeting with the Minister", explained the Secretary-General.