Construction Of The Krakal Beach Club, Don't Just Look For Profits But The Environment Is Damaged!

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JAKARTA - Criticism of Raffi Ahmad's beach club development plan at Krakal Beach in Yogyakarta is considered to have the potential to damage the environment and continue to flow. This is because the beach club was built in the Bentang Alam Karst (KBAK) area.

According to Center of Reform on Economics (CORE) Executive Director Mohammad Faisal said that basically, every investment must pay attention to applicable rules and other aspects.

"Not only in terms of profit, not only in terms of economic aspects, but also other aspects are important. Environmental, social aspects are important, governance is also important," Faisal told reporters in Jakarta, Thursday, January 18.

Including in the context of the beach club development that Raffi Ahmad will do in Jogja, that what is considered is not getting as much investment as possible and ignoring considerations from other aspects, including its impact on the environment.

"Because there will also be an impact later not only on the environment itself, but also on the community and the investment itself. Because not a few people are also harmed," he added.

Faisal then compared it with the construction of a smelter in Sulawesi, which previously did not have a population to become large and could absorb labor.

"But on the other hand, the people who worked there as fishermen, as farmers, then damaged their land, damaged the waters, so they did not get income as in the past the investment had not been built or had not been built, so this is detrimental to this group and they cannot immediately become workers there," said Faisal.

"Because they have been working like that, their skills and livelihoods. Now this is what is neglected," he continued.

So according to him, don't just encourage investment for the economy and solve the unemployment problem that creates other new problems. Faisal said that the problem occurred not only for the plan to build a beach club in Yogyakarta, but the government must pay attention to development in other areas.

"Because if not, this could be a time bomb if this happens in many places. Because this is not only in 1 or 2 cases, but in general and especially since this Job Creation Perpu has just been ratified and will be valid in a long period of time, without any control over cases like this," he continued.

"This could be a future time bomb, which could be a backfire on economic policy itself," he said.

Meanwhile, Pelita Harapan University Criminal Law Expert Rizky Karo Karo, the plan to build tourist attractions should comply with applicable legal regulations, especially the impact on the environment.

"The plan to build Raffi Ahmad's beach club at Krakal Beach in Yogyakarta must follow the applicable laws and regulations related to environmental protection," Rizky said in his statement on Thursday, January 18, 2024.

He also gave an example of Law Number 32 of 2009 concerning the Environment as amended by Law 6/2023 concerning Stipulation of Government Regulations in Lieu of Law Number 2 of 2022 concerning Job Creation into Law.

"Then, Permen-ESDM No. 17/2012 concerning the Determination of the Karst Natural Fort area," he continued.

In addition, investor wishes must think that if building the beach club apart from tourism purposes, it is still obligatory to comply with the principles in environmental protection and management.

"That includes planning including administrative licensing by authorized officials, utilization, control, maintenance, supervision, and law enforcement. So both the central government, local governments and capital owners must apply the precautionary principle in the development plan," he said.