Today, The DPR And The Government Hold A Meeting To Discuss The DKJ Bill

The DPR Legislation Body (Baleg) Meeting, Nusantara Building I Parliament Complex, Senayan Jakarta, Wednesday, March 13. (Nailin / VOI)

JAKARTA - The Indonesian House of Representatives and the Government held a meeting to discuss the draft special Jakarta regional law (RUU DKJ) in the meeting room of the Legislative Body (Baleg) of the DPR, Nusantara Building I Parliament Complex, Senayan Jakarta, Wednesday, March 13. This meeting is to discuss one of the questions about the status of Jakarta which is no longer the capital after being transferred to IKN Nusantara, East Kalimantan. In the meeting with the Minister of Home Affairs Tito Karnavian, Chairman of the Legislative Assembly of the DPR Supratman Andi Agtas explained that the DKJ Bill is a bill for the initiative of the DPR as a bill in the 2024 national legislation program (Prolegnas) in accordance with serial number 20, as stated in the DPR RI decision number 15 of the DPR RI/1 2023-2024. With the promulgation of Law number 3 of 2022 concerning the state capital (IKN) on February 15, 2022, the state capital is formally removed from Jakarta to the archipelago. The enactment of Law number 3 of 2022 has implications for changes in Jakarta, both related to the existence of the 29-year-2007 law on the provincial government of the special area of the capital of Jakarta as the capital of the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia. As well as the position of Jakarta with its specificity after being declared no longer as the state capital. "Even though we know in accordance with the IKN law because the transfer is needed by the president's decision and until today it has not been issued. So in fact, with these provisions also do not automatically suspend Jakarta's capital city as the capital of the capital of the Republic of Indonesia is revoked and declared invalid. This change must be carried out for 2 years since the Baleg meeting, Wednesday, March 13. The provision of paragraph 1 article 41 of Law No. 3 of 2002 states that since the presidential decision as referred to in Article 39 paragraph 4 paragraph 1, the provisions of article 4 except the function as an autonomous region and article 5 of Law number 29 of 2007 concerning the provincial government of the special city of the capital of the Republic of Indonesia is declared invalidate of the Republic of Indonesia is not valid. This change must be carried out for 2 years since the law

"Therefore, there is a legal urgent need to regulate Jakarta with its specialities after it is no longer the state capital in accordance with the mandate of law number 3 of 2022," Supratman said. "Jakarta regulation in Law number 29 of 2007 needs to be designed not only as a center of the national economy and a global city, but also to make Jakarta grow to develop as the main megapolitan city at the regional and global national levels with the formation of agglomeration areas as the support for integrated buffer areas, namely Bogor Depok Tangerang Bekasi and Cianjur," he continued.