Maluku DPRD Agrees To 10 Raperda In 2023, Including The Management Of Traditional Forests

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MALUKU - The Plenary Meeting of the Maluku Provincial DPRD has determined and approved 10 draft regional regulations (RAPERda) in 2023. The Raperda will be processed into a regional regulation product (perda)

"Of the 10 Raperda, five of them are the proposed Raperda for the provincial DPRD initiative and five others are from the provincial government," said Maluku DPRD chairman Benhur Watubun in Ambon, Friday, February 17, as reported by Antara.

The DPRD's Raperda initiative includes the Raperda on the provision of incentives and/or the provision of facilities for investment in the regions, the Raperda on regional goods, the Raperda on the management of customary forests, the Raperda on the master plan and the roadmap for the construction of the creative economy in the Maluku Province, and the Raperda on the administration of archives.

Meanwhile, the draft proposals of the Maluku Provincial Government are regional tax and levy Raperda, regional financial management Raperda, regional spatial planning Raperda, cultural heritage management, and Raperda for tourism ship management.

Benhur explained that the 10 drafts had been prepared by the Maluku DPRD Regional Regulation Formation Agency in the form of a draft formation for further discussion.

"The formation of regional regulations is a manifestation of the authority handed over to local governments in the context of implementing regional autonomy and assistance tasks and accommodating special regional conditions and/or elaboration," said Benhur.

Furthermore, regional regulations are one of the tools in carrying out social and democratic transformation as a manifestation of people in the regions and the responsibility for rapid changes.

"The challenge in the autonomous and globalization era today requires us to continue to create good governance as part of sustainable development in the regions so that the formation of regional regulations must obey the principles so that the formation is more directed and coordinated," he said.

Considering the role of such regional regulations is important in the implementation of regional autonomy, the preparation is programmed so that various legal instruments needed in the context of organizing regional autonomy can be formed systematically, directed, and planned based on a priority scale.

He said the program to form regional regulations does not only produce statutory products that support the implementation of government tasks and regional development, but is expected to meet the demands of community needs according to current and future developments.

Maluku Deputy Governor Barnabas Orno said the stipulation of the 2003 10-Raperda formation program was entirely a development of people's aspirations.

"All of these efforts are solely based on a mandate for the benefit of the community for the realization of Maluku which is managed honestly clean and serves guaranteed in welfare," said the Deputy Governor.