DPRD To Form A Special Committee To Explore Polemic Of Changing Street Names, Deputy Governor Of DKI: Many Other Ways

Vehicles crossing Jalan H Bokir Bin Dji'un, which was recently inaugurated, replaced the previous name Jalan Raya Pondok Gede. (AMONG)

JAKARTA - Deputy Governor of DKI Jakarta Ahmad Riza Patria responded to the plan of Commission A of the DKI Jakarta DPRD to propose the formation of a special committee (pansus) to explore the polemic of changing street names in Jakarta to names of Betawi figures.

Riza admitted that the special committee is an inherent right of the members of the council. However, Riza hopes that the special committee will not be formed by the DKI Jakarta DPRD.

"We hope that every difference of opinion between the executive and the board can be discussed and discussed together. Not always in the special committee, there are many other ways we can solve problems," Riza told reporters, Friday, July 15.

According to him, the DKI Provincial Government and the DKI DPRD simply have a dialogue or a joint working meeting to conduct a comprehensive deepening regarding the policy of changing the name of this road.

After all, he claims that the change of street names is also done for the community. "This means that every policy made by the provincial government is for the benefit of the community at large, not for the benefit of the provincial government," said Riza.

Previously, Head of Commission A of the DKI Jakarta DPRD, Mujiyono, said that his party would form a special committee (pansus) to explore the polemic of changing street names in Jakarta carried out by DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan.

Mujiyono said that the plan to form a special committee to change the name of the road was a proposal from the members of Commission A of the DKI DPRD. They saw many protests that came from residents affected by the change of dozens of street names.

"We will form a special committee regarding the name change (road), according to the recommendations of friends," said Mujiyono.

Member of Commission A of the DKI Jakarta DPRD, Gembong Warsono, also explained the reason for his party proposing the formation of a special committee (pansus) to change 22 street names in Jakarta.

Gembong said that the special committee's proposal stemmed from several complaints from affected residents who refused to change the name of the road. Meanwhile, Anies intends to increase the number of roads whose names will be changed.

"From 22 roads, it turns out that there are many problems in the field. If you add more, it means that there will be more problems," said Gembong when contacted, Thursday, July 14.

Currently, the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government has indeed tried to pick up the ball for residents to take care of changes to population documents such as ID cards and family cards for residents affected by the change in street names. However, it turns out that there is still resistance from residents, such as in Tanah Tinggi, Central Jakarta, and Bambu Apus, East Jakarta.

"Even if the ball was picked up, they didn't want to. For example, the kelurahan in East Jakarta, of the 700, only 27 were handed over because the rest they didn't want a name change," said Gembong.