Head Of BIN Calls IKN Development An Effort To Accelerate Social Transformation

Budi Gunawan/Photo: Antara

JAKARTA - Head of the State Intelligence Agency (BIN) General Police (Purn.) Budi Gunawan said the development of the National Capital City (IKN) is an effort to accelerate social transformation towards the creation of a highly civilized and advanced society. development of facilities, infrastructure, or infrastructure," said Budi Gunawan in a written statement received in Jakarta, Friday, March 4. Therefore, he continued, prospective residents of the IKN Nusantara authority must have an understanding of Indonesia's human development vision, so that they have increased capacity to receive change, diversity, and differences or absorptive capacity. Initially there will be many groupings of citizens based on ethnic, racial, class, and religious backgrounds (SARA), he said. However, due to a healthy process of social interaction, in the end people from various backgrounds will merge into a cohesive multicultural society , superior, and efficient, he added. "In its development, the community will be active at every stage of social interaction," he said. "If we get to the stage of exploiting this social advantage, (then) that is a sign that the development of the Nusantara IKN has been achieved," he said. The assessment of the BIN intelligence community, he said, has so far been supported by in-depth ethnographic and sociological research on IKN sites. The prospect of social interaction is also very promising, he added. This is mainly because East Kalimantan's demographics and socio-cultural aspects are heterogeneous and multicultural. In fact, he said, so far the people of East Kalimantan have been open to expressing their support for the Nusantara IKN development program.