Residents Ask Ganjar-Mahfud To Inaugurate Cijalan Regency Because It Took 3 Hours To Lebak To Manage Administration

Head Of Banten Regional Winning Team (TPD) Ganjar-Mahfud, Rano Karno/PHOTO: Wardhany Tsa Tsia-VOI

JAKARTA - The head of the Banten Ganjar-Mahfud Regional Winning Team (TPD), Rano Karno, said residents urged the number three pair to immediately inaugurate Ciligaan to become a district if elected in the 2024 presidential election. This request arose for several reasons, one of which was related to administrative management.

"To take care of the administration, the Cilegan people must go to Lebak Regency, which is 3.5 hours away. Maybe, sorry, taking care of the ID card must be far away," Rano told reporters at the Bayah Islamic Center, Lebak, Banten, Friday, January 19.

The expansion of this area also felt reasonable by Rano Karno because it had been voiced for a long time even when he was Governor of Banten. After all, Cijalan was the capital city of Banten Province in 1816.

"Only there is a moratorium that (makes, red) the president does not give the opportunity to expand," he said.

Meanwhile, the chairman of the Banten Province PDI-P DPD, Ade Sumardi, claimed to have submitted the citizen's proposal directly to Ganjar. He even specifically asked for a moratorium that made it difficult for the inauguration of Ciligapan to become a district to be revoked.

"Then what is Mr. Ganjar's answer? Ready, he said, I am familiar with the name Ciligapan. Why? Because when Mr. Ganjar served as a member of the Indonesian House of Representatives, he knew how this Cijalan had to bloom," he said imitating Ganjar's statement.

"This means that we have found the right presidential candidate to become a district. So we don't just choose, we vote, after we vote, we disappear. Now don't want to buy a cat in a sack," he continued.

Ade reminded the chosen candidate pairs to really care about this discourse. "We can't be a district, but the president doesn't want to, we can't," concluded Ade.