JAKARTA - The spokesman for the Ummat Party, Mustofa Nahrawardaya, apparently did not follow the latest developments in the National Capital City (IKN), called Nusantara. He didn't even understand the abbreviation for IKN.
"It turns out that IKN stands for the Capital of the Archipelago. It surprised me," said Mustofa via his Twitter account, @TofaTofa_id, Friday, March 11.
Even though IKN Nusantara has just had a new leader. President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) himself inaugurated the regional chief executive located in East Kalimantan.
His names are Bambang Susantono and Dhony Rahajoe, respectively, serving as Head and Deputy Head of the Archipelago IKN Authority. Both of them were sworn in and officially became regional leaders after being sworn in by Jokowi at the State Palace, Central Jakarta on Thursday, March 10.
On a different occasion, Jokowi said that the transfer of the capital city from Jakarta to IKN Nusantara was to achieve equity. The reason is that so far the largest economic turnover has occurred on the island of Java.
Jokowi explained that currently 58 percent of Indonesia's economic turnover is in Java. This is what causes everyone to want to live and earn money in Java, especially Jakarta as the capital city.
With the relocation of the capital city, Jokowi continued, the economic cycle could spread to other areas, especially the archipelago.
"The magnet is not only in Jakarta, there is the archipelago. There are two magnets. You can go there, you can come here. This means that the economic cycle is not only in Java," said Jokowi at the TNI-Polri Leadership Meeting at the TNI-Polri Headquarters Plaza, Cilangkap, East Jakarta, Tuesday, March 1st.
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