The Directorate General of Regional Autonomy (Ditjen Otda) of the Ministry of Home Affairs (Kemendagri) noted that until April 2025 there were at least 341 regional proposals to be contested, including provinces, districts, and cities in Indonesia.
The Director General (Dirjen) of Otda Kemendagri Akmal Malik detailed that the number consisted of 42 proposals for the formation of provinces, 252 proposed districts, 36 proposed city formation, and 6 special regional proposals, and 5 special autonomous regions.
"So there are 42 provincial proposals, 252 regencies, 36 cities, so there are 6 asking for special areas, and there are also 5 asking for special autonomous areas," said Akmal Malik during a meeting with Commission II of the DPR RI at the parliament complex, Senayan, Jakarta, Thursday, April 24, which was confiscated by Antara.
However, he said that the finalization of the Draft Government Regulation (RPP) on Regional Arrangement and RPP on the Grand Design of Regional Arrangement was in accordance with the government's political decisions and policies in the policy of the regional expansion moratorium.
The two RPPs will serve as guidelines for requirements and technicalities in the implementation of provincial, district/city expansion in Indonesia
"This is our homework together because the law mandates that the government and the DPR take steps in the future," he said.
He said that his party was supposed to prepare the two RPP drafts in 2016, but then the Vice President of the Republic of Indonesia, who served as Chairman of the Regional Autonomy Advisory Council, decided to continue the policy of the regional expansion moratorium.
"But, when we will continue, this was brought to the OTDA Advisory Council forum whose chairman is the Vice President, and at that time the Vice President said he was continuing the moratorium policy so that this PP was delayed," said Akmal.
Meanwhile, Deputy Chairman of Commission II of the Indonesian House of Representatives, Aria Bima, said that his party was pursuing evaluations and guidance in the regions that had been contested, responding to the proposals of hundreds of regional expansions.
"We want evaluation and coaching in the old expansion area like what it used to be," Aria said when met after the meeting.
However, he realized that a number of regions were indeed urgent for expansion.
"So that there is no deterrent or jealousness between one region and another, in the meantime the moratorium has not been revoked. Well, there are areas that make sense. For example, Bogor, for example, but it's one package with another for us not to discuss it first," he said.
For this reason, he emphasized that the proposed regional expansion should not be based solely on administrative and political reasons, but must focus on aspects of economic development and the welfare of the people in the region.
"So it's actually related to improving welfare and improving public services. Indonesia can no longer develop with centralization called the center controlling 316 regencies and cities, or controlling 38 provinces, it can't," he said.
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