Want Certificate Of Monas Land, Ministry Of State Secretariat: Because It Belongs To Indonesian People

Monas (Commons Wikimedia)

JAKARTA - Secretary of the State Secretariat (Kemensetneg), Setya Utama, mentioned the reason the central government wants to have a certificate for the National Monument (Monas) land.

According to Setya, Monas land must be certified and recorded as state property. He said, Monas belongs to all Indonesian people. That is why the Ministry of State Secretariat does not want the City Government to have the Monas certificate.

"The State Secretariat is of the opinion that Monas is a monument to the struggle of the Indonesian nation, which belongs to all Indonesian people. It should have been registered as property of the state, the central government," Setya told reporters, Friday, November 6.

According to Setya, the ownership of Monas by the central government is in line with Presidential Decree No. 214 of 1959 which was signed by President Soekarno. In addition, there was a Presidential Decree Number 25 of 1995 which declared the Minister of State Secretary as Chair of the Steering Committee.

"The ownership of the Monas land in the name of the State Secretariat is in accordance with the Presidential Decree 25 of 1995, in which the State Secretary is the Head of the Steering Committee and the Governor of DKI as the Chairperson of the Executive Agency for the Development of the Free Medan Area, which includes Monas," said Setya.

However, Setya wants the party responsible for managing the DKI Pemporov to remain. "Regarding the management, we agree to continue to be carried out by the DKI Provincial Government, according to the minutes of the Minister of Education and Culture's handover to the Governor of DKI on August 25, 1978," he said.

For information, the Ministry of State Secretariat (Kemensetneg) and DKI Pemprov have mutually proposed ownership of the National Monument (Monas) land certification to the National Land Agency (BPN). Because, at this time, Monas land has not been certified.

This tug of war was revealed in an online coordination meeting between the Ministry of State and the Provincial Government of DKI on Wednesday, November 4. In fact, this process has received monitoring from the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK).

Kemensetneg wants the Monas certificate to be owned by the central government and DKI will receive borrow and use facilities. However, the Provincial Government of DKI wants the Ministry of State to have management rights (HPL) and DKI to control building use rights (HGB).

If DKI only gets borrow-to-use rights, then DKI has to extend this right every five years. Meanwhile, if the DKI Pemprov gets the HGB, then they can extend their rights for every 30 years.