KSP Ensures That The Government Evaluates Conditions In Wadas Village, Central Java

Deputy V of the Presidential Staff Office (KSP) Jaleswari Pramodhawardani. (ANTARA/HO)

JAKARTA - Deputy V Presidential Chief of Staff (KSP) Jaleswari Pramodhawardani said the government is currently still evaluating the actual conditions in Wadas Village, Bener District, Purworejo Regency, Central Java.

"One part of the evaluation, of course, is verification of facts on the ground regarding the incident, not just relying on information on social media," Jaleswari told reporters in Jakarta, Antara, Wednesday, February 9.

On Tuesday, there was tension between residents and joint officers who wanted to measure the land of the Bener Dam Project in the village. "Currently, the government is doing to ascertain the issue of the incident," said Jaleswari.

Indeed, amateur videos circulated on social media showing a number of police officers surrounding the residents and arresting several residents from residents' homes.

"After that, it can be determined what actions need to be taken. What is clear at the formal legal level, every form of violation of procedures at the operational level by the apparatus, there are already arrangements related to legal action and processes, both internal regulations and laws," Jaleswari added.

A total of 66 residents who had been detained because of the clashes have been returned to their homes.

Tensions arose because hundreds of joint officers from the police, Satpol PP, and TNI accompanied the Central Java National Land Agency (BPN) Regional Office Team and the Central Java Provincial Agriculture Service to measure land and count plants in an area that was agreed upon by some residents to become a stone quarry site. andesite.

Meanwhile, other residents rejected the andesite mining plan to be used for the construction of the Bener Dam, which is one of the national strategic projects, based on the Indonesian Presidential Regulation Number 56 of 2018 concerning the Acceleration of the Implementation of National Strategic Projects.

Based on the Decree of the Governor of Central Java Number 590/41/2018, Wadas Village is the location where the land will be acquired and used as a location for taking materials in the form of andesite rock for the construction of the Bener Dam.