Minister Trenggono Seals 3,000 Meters Of Reclamation Land In Batam Regarding Licensing

JAKARTA - Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (KP) Sakti Wahyu Trenggono sealed a reclamation area covering an area of 3,000 square meters in Tering Bay, Batam, Riau Islands (Kepri).

The sealing was carried out because it did not have a basic permit for the Approval of the Compensation of Marine Spatial Utilization Activities (PKKPRL) and did not have a reclamation permit. "This is an example that we are trying to properly regulate, there is a owner here. Now he is taking care of it, but taking care of it after this (reclamation) is carried out. Ideally, before this reclamation, he should take care of it first," said Trenggono after sealing the reclamation area in the Batam area, Thursday, June 8, was confiscated by Antara. Control carried out related to the management of the sea space, he continued, has been carried out since serving as Minister of Maritime Affairs 1.5 years ago. He also regretted the reclamation activities carried out by PT. BMI and asked business actors to complete the permit before starting domestic reclamation.

"If you ask why it's only now ( Sealed), yes, this should ask for permission first. We have to ask for permission first, but if I say this can't be dismantled, it's already broken below. It's already broken, we have allowed it, we seal it, we ask for permission according to the procedure, but actually it's wrong," he said.

In the future, if there are illegal reclamation actions, then his party will quickly conduct research including materials used for reclamation. "Then if there are actions like this (illegal reclamation), research will be carried out quickly. Before it continues, we will stop it," he concluded. For information, the sealing of this reclamation location was carried out because it violated the Ministerial Regulation (Permen) of Marine Fisheries Number 30 of 2021 concerning Marine Space Supervision.