I Don't Get The INS Issue Of Nuclear Power, Member Of Commission VII Asks The Government To Reshape BATAN

National Nuclear Energy Agency. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

Member of Commission VII DPR RI Mulyanto asked the government to re-establish the National Nuclear Energy Agency (BATAN). He assessed that the formation of the agency was necessary, because it was related to the implementation of international nuclear cooperation and its main task as a National Nuclear Energy Organizing Agency.

Mulyanto disagreed with the government's idea to form a non-structural institution (LNS) for nuclear power.

The reason is that the institution that was previously dissolved, namely BATAN, has functioned well. But because there was a political interest, BATAN was dissolved," said Mulyanto in a statement to the media, Tuesday, December 13.

Mulyanto continued, currently, when there is a need to establish international nuclear cooperation, the government is even thinking about forming a new institution.

Why build a new institution? The effort will be more severe. Because it seems that everything will start from scratch. It is better for the government to reshape BATAN. Just cancel the merger of BATAN into BRIN," continued Mulyanto.

Actually, said Mulyanto, at the time of the merger of BATAN to BRIN, this matter had already surfaced, including aspects of national nuclear power implementation. However, the government remains unmoved.

He admitted that from the start he had warned that BATAN was an institution mandated by law, so it could not be dissolved only with the Presidential Decree. The government has violated the law," he said.

Then, continued Mulyanto, BATAN is also not just a nuclear research institution whose function is only to carry out research. The mandate of Law Number 10 of 1997 concerning Nuclear Energy, confirms that BATAN is a national power management agency.

According to him, the task of organizing this is very broad, starting from the management of nuclear utilization for energy and non-energy; utilization of radiation for various fields; nuclear excavation management; management of radioactive waste; and others.

This includes international cooperation in the nuclear sector. So it's only natural that now it's starting to feel the confusion. Now, now the government will again form an LNS. Even though the government's big institutional design is to remove all LNS that are in disarray so they don't become complicated," said the legislator for the Banten III electoral district.

So, continued Mulyanto, the government is just 'poco-poco' about these sciences and innovation institutions. Only following shahawat and try-baco, trial and error, even recklessly crashing into the law. If government institutional management is like this, then our boro-boro iptek-innovasi will progress. What appears is setbacks, Mulyanto's criticism