JAKARTA - Member of the House of Representatives from the Gerindra Party faction, Fadli Zon, criticized the name of the new State Capital (IKN) which agreed to be named Nusantara. According to Fadli, the name Nusantara is not suitable for the capital city that will be transferred to East Kalimantan.
"Nusantara is not suitable as the name of the new capital city," said Fadli Zon via his Twitter account @fadlizon, which was seen by VOI on Tuesday, January 18. The member of Commission I of the Indonesian House of Representatives also proposed that the name IKN be taken from the name of the President such as the Capital of Kazakhstan. Namely, the name of the new state capital is Jokowi.
"Nusantara has its own meaning as Indonesian territory, not to mention there is 'Insight of the Archipelago'," he said. "My suggestion is to name the capital city directly 'Jokowi'. It is the same as the capital of Kazakhstan Nursultan (from the name of President Nursultan Nazarbayev)," wrote Fadli. Previously, the Minister of National Development Planning (PPN)/Head of Bappenas Suharso Monoarfa explained the meaning of the chosen word Nusantara.
"Nusantara is a concept of actualization of the geographical area of a country in which there are islands united by the ocean," said Suharso at the DPR Building, Monday, January 17.
According to him, the islands united by the sea show that the Indonesian nation is a maritime country. Then it was revealed an acknowledgment of geographical diversity based on cultural, ethnic and ethnic diversity.
"So Nusantara is a unitary concept that is willing to accommodate pluralism," he said. Suharso said the name Nusantara also implies the reality of Indonesia. "Through the name Nusantara, it reveals the reality of Indonesia," he explained.
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