Jokowi's Camp With The Governor At IKN Nusantara Is Expected To Bring Benefits, Not Just An Image

President Joko Widodo (Instagram/@jokowi)

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) camped at the zero point of the location of the National Capital (IKN) Nusantara, East Kalimantan (Kaltim). Jokowi camped with ministers and governors from various provinces on March 13-15, 2022. Responding to this, Member of Commission II of the DPR from the PAN faction, Guspardi Gaus, questioned the purpose of the activities of the presidential camp with the governors throughout Indonesia. "What is the substance of the camp? Is it a publication or part of this (IKN check, ed)," said Guspardi to VOI, Monday, March 14. The member of the IKN Special Committee revealed that when he saw the condition of the candidate for the new capital city. According to him, access to the zero point of the IKN location is very difficult. "I've been there by helicopter, it's still a forest, a garden. In the past, I couldn't go in there, just looking from the air because access to point zero couldn't go in," he said. So if President Jokowi is camping, it must be explained to the public in what context, let alone inviting the governors to participate. Don't let it, said Guspardi, that the camping event is just an image. "If a camp is carried out, the camp in question should have substance in terms of whether to promote or inform all governors that this is a place that is used as an IKN. So that governors who previously did not know where the place was and what the conditions were would clearly understand the objective conditions of the IKN location. under what conditions," said the West Sumatra legislator.

"So hopefully it has meaning and benefits, not just imaging. If imaging is useless, the governor is brought there, but there is no urgency for them to be there," continued Guspardi. In addition, the PAN politician asked President Jokowi to fill in the values and benefits of the camp agenda. "The value of the tent that has been set up is whether there is a coordination meeting or there is some kind of direction that the president gives to the governors. Of course it must have a substantive value," said Guspardi.