8 Factions Agree For IKN Bill To Be Taken To The Plenary For Ratification, PKS Refuses

DPR RI Plenary Meeting/Photo: VOI

The House of Representatives of the Republic of Indonesia approved the Draft State Capital Law (RUU IKN) to be brought to the Plenary Meeting, Tuesday, January 18, for ratification.

After the National Capital Special Committee (Pansus IKN) together with the government agreed on the bill, it was continued at level one after a work meeting that was rushed until Tuesday, January 18, early in the morning.

The meeting was chaired by the Chair of the Special Committee for IKN, Ahmad Doli Kurnia. Also physically present were all factions, DPD RI, Minister of National Development Planning/Head of National Development Planning Agency Suharso Monoarfo, Menkumham Yasonna Laoly, and Minister of Home Affairs Tito Karnavian.

"Can we approve the Bill on the National Capital that we have discussed and then we will process it further according to the DPR RI regulations to continue at the second level election stage? Can we agree?" said Doli which was followed by an agreement by the meeting participants.

All factions in the DPR have provided views and opinions regarding the IKN Bill. Eight factions in the DPR agreed that the IKN Bill was brought to the DPR plenary session with a number of notes and criticisms.

However, one faction said it refused, namely the PKS faction of the DPR RI. Openly, the faction chaired by Jazuli Juwaini rejected the IKN bill being brought to the plenary stage of the Indonesian House of Representatives.

"In the end, with all the considerations above, the PKS Faction must take a stand against the Draft Law on the State Capital," said PKS Faction member Suryadi Jaya Purnama.

The PKS faction assessed that there were a number of proposals that had not been accommodated in the IKN Bill.

"With the various considerations above and there are still many substances and views of the PKS Faction that have not been accommodated in the IKN Bill, the PKS Fraction of the DPR RI, by saying bismillahirrahmanirrahim, declares that it rejects the Draft Law on the State Capital to proceed to the next stage," he stressed. .