Dedi Mulyadi Calls Spatial Planning In West Java Chaotic

West Java Governor Dedi Mulyadi. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - West Java Governor Dedi Mulyadi said spatial planning in West Java is currently experiencing chaos, because it adopts a political approach, not nature conservation.

"Perkebunan berubah menjadi kawasan tambang dan industri. Gunung pun kehilangan hutan dan laut kehilangan pantai akibat tata ruang yang kerusak," kata Dedi di Bandung, dikutip Antara, Sabtu, 16 Agustus.

Dedi said spatial planning in West Java is currently overlapping, such as areas that are tourist destinations but also mining activities, so it is necessary to evaluate the spatial planning of West Java.

The West Java Provincial Government, he said, is committed to regulating spatial planning in West Java in line with nature, as an effort to prevent natural disasters.

"To officials, including village heads, make spatial planning that keeps them away from disasters. If you dredge nature arbitrarily, there will be a disaster," he said.

He said spatial planning in line with nature does not mean eliminating industrial estates, settlements, and other developments.

However, nature must be preserved, such as forests and springs.

"This means that mountains are beautiful, water flows clearly, rivers are winding, beaches are clean, rice fields are the most frequent," he said.

Dedi also expressed his concern about the West Java spatial planning in front of the West Java DPRD, where the mistake of arranging the space has removed a green area of 1.2 million hectares.

The largest loss of green areas occurred in Bekasi and Bogor regencies. Plantation has turned into a tourism, residential and hospitality area.

Knowing the problem, Dedi plans to change the West Java Region Spatial Plan this year.

"If the spatial planning is not changed, then we will be surrounded by landslides and floods. It's not strange that today the floods are not in the highlands, but mountains," said Dedi.

He instructed the relevant Regional Apparatus Organizations (OPD) to obtain details of the West Java spatial planning that had been made by the Dutch East Indies Government.

According to him, the Dutch East Indies has made West Java spatial planning in line with nature. This should be a reference in revising West Java's spatial planning.

"It will not be the same as the colonial era, but we bring it closer, don't let us mess up," said Dedi.