Anies Promises To Revoke The Gubernatorial Regulation On Forced Evictions Made By Ahok But Never Is It Implemented, PDIP: Just A Political Game

Gembong Warsono, chairman of the PDIP faction of the DKI Jakarta DPRD. (Diah-VOI)

JAKARTA - Chairman of the PDIP faction of the DKI Jakarta DPRD, Gembong Warsono, believes that the Governor of DKI Jakarta, Anies Baswedan, actually does not intend to revoke Governor's Regulation Number 207 of 2016 concerning Controlling the Use/Control of Land Without an Entitled Permit.

Pergub 207/2016 was issued by Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (Ahok) while serving as Governor of DKI in 2016. Ahok often uses this regulation to carry out forced evictions.

Although some time ago Anies had promised a group of eviction victims to revoke Pergub 207/2016, Gembong viewed this as a mere political gimmick. This is because the regulation is still in use and has not been revoked.

"For me, this is just a political gimmick, Mr. Governor, that at the end it seems as if you can't do anything because you are shackled. In fact, this is one of the Governor's promises not to evict settlements on the banks of the river," said Gembong when contacted, Thursday. , August 11th.

Gembong regretted the statement by the Head of the DKI Legal Bureau, Yayan Yuhanah, who said that if the revocation of Pergub 207/2016 was carried out at this time, the Ministry of Home Affairs (Kemendagri) would potentially reject it because it did not go through the propempergub process in 2023.

According to Gembong, if Anies really has the desire to revoke Pergub 207/2016, this can be done because the Pergub is the governor's authority.

"There is indeed a provision that the governor's regulation must be facilitated with the Ministry of Home Affairs, but that doesn't mean it can't. If there is a will, it can be done. The question is, does the DKI Provincial Government have the will to revoke it?" said Gembong.

"Later, if there is an evaluation from the Ministry of Home Affairs, it will be returned, please validate it," he continued.

Some time ago, a group of people on behalf of the People's Coalition Against Evictions (KRMP) came to DKI Jakarta City Hall to collect Anies' promise to revoke Pergub 207/2016.

Because, when Anies served as Governor of DKI in 2017 until now, the governor was still being used by him to carry out forced evictions. In fact, this is not in accordance with Anies' narrative during the 2017 Pilkada campaign, which did not want to evicte residents' settlements.

The evictions that used the governor's regulation during Anies' leadership of DKI took place at Pancoran Buntu II, South Jakarta; Vegetable Garden, Ciracas, East Jakarta; Bukit Duri, Tebet, South Jakarta; and Sunter Agung, Tanjung Priok, North Jakarta.

KRMP representative and LBH Jakarta public attorney, Jihan Fauziah Hamdi, revealed that his party together with representatives of the communities affected by this eviction had previously sent a letter requesting the revocation of Pergub 207/2016 on February 10, 2022.

Then, on April 6, 2022, KRMP also had a direct audience with Anies and his TGUPP at the City Hall of DKI Jakarta. At that time, Anies had promised to revoke Ahok's eviction regulation.

"Anyway, from the results of the hearing, there is an official report stating that Anies is committed to revoking the Pergub. In addition to revoking it, during the process, until there is a provision or certainty that a moratorium will be carried out, so that there will be no evictions in villages in DKI Jakarta," said Jihan when met at DKI City Hall, Thursday, August 4.