DPR Sahkan RUU DKJ Jadi UU, PKS Refusing: Ini Terburu-buru

Plenary Meeting During Trial V for Session Year 2023-2024 at Nusantara II Building, Parliament Complex, Senayan, Jakarta, Thursday, March 28. (Nailin / VOI)

JAKARTA - The Indonesian House of Representatives has officially ratified the Draft Law on the Province of the Special Region of Jakarta (RUU DKJ) into law at the Plenary Meeting of the V Session Period for the 2023-2024 Session Year at the Nusantara II Building, Parliament Complex, Senayan, Jakarta, Thursday, March 28.

In a plenary meeting chaired by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Puan Maharani today, PKS is still the only party that rejects the DKJ Bill. Meanwhile, 8 other factions namely PDIP, Golkar, Gerindra, PKB, Democrats, NasDem, PAN and PPP approved the draft.

"Furthermore, we ask all members of the council once again whether the Bill on Special Jakarta Regions can be approved to be passed into law?" asked DPR Speaker Puan Maharani to the members of the council present.

Agree, the answer of all members of the Council who attended was followed by a halt to the hammer.

Previously, the Chairman of the Legislation Body (Baleg) of the DPR Supratman Andi Agtas read out the results of an agreement between the DPR and the government regarding the DKJ Bill consisting of 12 chapters and 73 articles. Broadly speaking, the DKJ Bill contains the definition of the agglomeration area and provisions regarding the appointment of chairmen and members of the agglomeration council by the president whose appointment procedures are regulated by the decision of the presidential regulation. Then, the provisions regarding governors and deputy governors are chosen through the mechanism of selecting an allocation of funds for at least five percent for sub-districts derived from the provincial budget in accordance with the workload of administrative areas that must be intended to solve social social problems. Regulation regarding the provision of 15 special authorities for the government of the special Jakarta special area which includes general work and spatial arrangement, public housing and residential areas, capital investment, transportation, environment, industry, tourism and creative economy, trade, education, education, culture, population control and family planning.

Also the administration of population and civil registration, marine and fisheries, and employment monitoring of progress and culture with priority for the progress of Betawi culture and other developing cultures in Jakarta, the involvement of traditional institutions and Betawi culture as well as the establishment of cultural endowment funds sourced from the APBD.

Adjustments related to incomes sourced from certain types of licensing levies in space utilization activities whose tariff setting procedures are regulated in accordance with the provisions of the legislation on the addition of other provisions related to land.

"After discussing 734 DIM with the government, on March 18, Baleg completed a working meeting with the government and DPD. The government was represented by the Minister of Home Affairs, Minister of Finance, Minister of National Planning and Development, Head of Bappenas, Menpan RB, and Menkumham, eight factions stated that they agreed, namely the PDIP, Golkar, Gerindra, NasDem, PKB, Democrats, PAN, and PPP factions to be continued to the second level of discussion in the draft to be enacted into law. Meanwhile, one faction, namely PKS, stated that they refused, "said Supratman.

Meanwhile, PKS had submitted an interruption regarding the DKJ Bill before stating that it refused. They suggested that Jakarta remain the capital city of legislation.

Members of the DPR Baleg from the PKS faction, Anshory Siregar, claimed that the discussion of the DKJ Bill was too hasty and there was no community involvement in the discussion of the DKJ Bill.

"This bill was discussed in a hurry, in a hurry. I heard that the DPR building (at IKN) has not been built, he said, when it was built, it was approved by the DPR? This is a very hasty leadership," said Anshory.