Plants At The HI Roundabout Are Damaged, The DKI Provincial Government Is Asked To Evaluate The 2024 New Year's Eve Celebration

Officers replanted damaged plants on New Year's Eve (DOK Diah Ayu/VOI)

JAKARTA - Deputy Chairman of the DKI Jakarta DPRD Khoirudin asked the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government to evaluate the mechanism for organizing New Year's Eve 2024. This is because the Mudi Young Night event which was attended by hundreds of thousands of people in celebrating the turn of the year caused damage to plants in the HI Roundabout area and along Jalan Sudirman to MH Thamrin. Because, if this condition is left in the next activity, the DKI Provincial Government will definitely spend more budget for the cost of repairing the park. "There must be an evaluation. If there are many people present, with that risk, the park must be stepped on. It must be anticipated by the local government, so if this is the case, another fee will be spent on repairing the park," Khoirudin told reporters, Wednesday, December 3. On the one hand, Khoirudin also highlighted the aspect of cleanliness in these activities. Given, when the 2024 New Year's Eve celebrations are over, many people leave garbage and are dumped in any place. "This is a shared responsibility between the government and the community. The government needs to make adequate waste bins that can be reached," he said. "The public must also be advised. I see, there is no announcement of throwing garbage in its place, banners, appeals, or audio. Nothing," he continued. For information, a number of officers from the DKI Jakarta City Parks and Forests Service (Distamhut) carried out replanting plants in the HI Roundabout area as well as along Jalan Sudirman to MH Thamrin. Repairs to this park were carried out due to damage to plants that were trampled by people celebrating New Year's Eve on December 31, 2023 to January 1, 2024 in the area. "Alhamdulillah, it is safe. Starting yesterday, repairs were being carried out, especially on the median roads and safeities," said Head of DKI Jakarta Distamhut Bayu Meghantara in a short message, Tuesday, January 2. Bayu admitted that he did not care about the damage to plants at the center of the 2024 New Year's Eve celebration held by the DKI Provincial Government. Bearing in mind, the DKI Provincial Government has prepared new plants brought from the Distamhut seed plantation. So, there is no need to replant the seeds in the HI Roundabout area and Sudirman-Thamrin. "The plants have been prepared from our seed plantations. Now the land is still being maturated by 50 joint officers from the Central Jakarta service and the Central Jakarta service tribe," explained Bayu.

From this condition, Bayu appealed to the public to pay more attention to the sustainability of plants as one of the living things. "Let's take care of our nature together. God willing, nature will also take care of us," he explained.