Application Of 6,000 Village Representatives Throughout Indonesia Spreads Of Support For Development Of IKN Nusantara

The chairman of the DPP Apdesi Surtawijaya put a signature on a banner spread by village heads throughout Indonesia in the Nusantara Zero Point area, Saturday (17/12/202). ANTARA/M Ghofar

BALIKPAPAN - Villages throughout Indonesia that are members of the Association of Indonesian Village Governments (Apdesi) span an elongated banner at the Nusantara Zero Point. The banner contains support for the sustainability of the development of the National Capital (IKN) of the Archipelago. "There are more than 6,000 representatives of village heads throughout Indonesia who visited the IKN area last Saturday to provide support for IKN development, as well as put up banners for IKN's sustainability support," said Chairman of the DPP Apdesi Surtawijaya in Balikpapan, Antara, Sunday, December 18. The Apdesi banner that was stretched out extends in the IKN area which is still in the Sepaku District, North Penajam Paser Regency, East Kalimantan (Kaltim) which reads "Whoever the leader is in 2024, the Dead Price Continues IKN Development". The banner was installed by representatives of village heads (kades) throughout Indonesia on Saturday, December 17, when they visited Nusantara Zero Point, IKN area, to support the government in supporting future development. Apdesi, said Surtawijaya, who is the Head of Babakan Asem Village, Teluknaga District, Tangerang, Banten, the village heads support the transfer of IKN to East Kalimantan in order to equalize development, so that in the future Indonesia's development will not focus on one area. East Kalimantan is the central region of Indonesia, so the reach from the middle can be easier to the west and east, different from when the capital city of Indonesia was in the western region of the country, so development is considered not evenly distributed or still focused in certain areas. For Apdesi, this visit to the Nusantara Zero Point in Kalimantan has a deep meaning, not just walking and putting up support banners, but this is a form of completeness of village government representatives throughout Indonesia to continue the construction of IKN Nusantara. "Our visit to IKN is to support the continuation and acceleration of IKN development. The fixed price of Apdesi is whoever the leader will be, so the development of IKN Nusantara must be continued," he also said. Moreover, he said again, the existence of IKN has been strengthened by law, namely Law Number 3 of 2022 concerning the State Capital which was ratified on February 15, 2022, thus strengthening the government to continue the current development. He also said that as many as 6,000 more village heads gathered were enough to represent all the village heads of the archipelago, because it was impossible for more than 74,000 village heads to gather at IKN.