Polemic Rempang is considered a test of government governance.

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JAKARTA - The controversy over the National Strategic Project (PSN) Rempang Eco City and Wiraraja Green Energy, Semiconductor, and Solar Energy Industrial Park (GESEIP) on Galang Island is considered to be a test of the quality of government governance. This event is not just an investment controversy or political competition.

"The rampaging should not be seen as a local issue. It is a national test for the quality of governance," said the Founding Secretary of Indonesian Audit Watch (IAW) Iskandar Sitorus in a written statement, Tuesday, July 7.

The controversy over the Rempang project, continued Iskandar, is also a test for all political forces for the 7th President of the Republic of Indonesia Joko Widodo, the Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI), the PDI-P to the government of President Prabowo Subianto.

As for PDIP, according to Iskandar, it has room to carry out oversight functions through policy evaluation, monitoring the implementation of the Ombudsman's recommendations, and strengthening the DPR's oversight of national strategic projects.

Meanwhile, PSI can show its commitment by encouraging the resolution of the remaining issues, not just providing political advocacy.

Because, the conflict has brought together various fundamental issues, ranging from legal certainty, community rights, spatial planning, land, the environment, and the credibility of the state in carrying out development. Iskandar said this statement was based on various findings of the Financial Audit Agency (BPK) to the Ombudsman of the Republic of Indonesia.

According to him, the BPK has shown for years that there are still weaknesses in governance in the implementation of national strategic projects.

Meanwhile, the Indonesian Ombudsman has also found maladministration in the development of Rempang Eco-City and has provided corrective action to the relevant agencies.

"The findings show that the Rempang issue is not sufficiently understood as a difference of opinion between the government and the community, but rather as a problem of administrative governance of the government that requires improvement," said Iskandar.

"What is needed now is not mutual blame. What is needed is the courage to evaluate."