Mundurnya Dua Pejabat Otorita IKN, Disorot Media Asing, Ini Katanya….
JAKARTASATU.COM— Mundurnya Kepala Otorita IKN Nusantara Bambang Susantono dan wakilnya, Dhony Rahajoe, dari jabatan masing-masing disorot media asing pada Senin (3/6/2024) waktu setempat.
Media Asing Reuters, Senin (3/6/2024), menulis soal pengunduran diri Bambang dan Dhony menulis dengan judul “Head, Deputy Head of Indonesia’s New Capital City Authority Resign, Minister Says”.
Dalam tulisan Reuters mengutip keterangan Menteri Sekretariat Negara (Mensesneg) Pratikno yang menyampaikan pengumuman mengejutkan itu kepada publik pada Senin (3/6/2024) waktu setempat.
“Kepala dan wakil kepala badan ibu kota baru Indonesia, yang mengawasi proyek senilai US$ 32 miliar, telah mengundurkan diri, kata Menteri Sekretariat Negara pada hari Senin,” demikian tulis Reuters pada Senin (3/6/2024) waktu setempat.
Berita Reuters tersebut dimuat ulang oleh sejumlah media-media asing lainnya, seperti Channel News Asia, Straits Times, hingga Arab News.
Diketahui, Mensesneg Praktiko mengatakan bahwa Presiden Joko Widodo (Jokowi) telah menerima surat permohonan pengunduran diri Bambang Susantono dari jabatannya sebagai Kepala Otorita IKN.
Pratikno juga menyebut bahwa Keppres pemberhentian dengan hormat Bambang dari jabatan itu telah diterbitkan.
Dia juga mengatakan bahwa Presiden Jokowi telah menunjuk Menteri PUPR Basuki Hadimuljono menjadi Plt Kepala Otorita IKN dan mengangkat Wakil Menteri ATR Raja Juli Antoni sebagai Wakil Kepala Otorita IKN.
Saat ditanya soal alasan di balik pengunduran diri Bambang, Pratikno mengatakan alasannya tidak disampaikan secara detail dalam surat pengunduran diri.
Bambang Susantono sebelumnya dilantik Presiden Jokowi sebagai Kepala Otorita IKN pada Maret 2022.
Pratikno menambahkan bahwa pembicaraan mengenai pengunduran diri Bambang sudah dilakukan sejak lama. Namun surat resmi mengenai pengunduran diri itu baru disampaikan baru-baru ini. (Yoss)
“Head, deputy head of Indonesia’s new capital city authority resign, minister says”.
Beritkut berita yang ditulis pada (3/6/2024, waktu setempat), Reuters– The head and deputy head of the body overseeing Indonesia’s planned new capital have unexpectedly resigned, raising questions about the $32 billion project.
With Jakarta, the current capital of 10 million, overcrowded and plagued by massive traffic jams as well as chronic flooding and sinking land, Indonesia is building a new capital, called Nusantara, in the jungles of East Kalimantan on Borneo – an island shared with Malaysia.
“The President has appointed the public works and housing minister and deputy agrarian minister as the acting head and deputy head,” State Secretariat Minister Pratikno said on Monday.
He said the appointments would speed up construction and the resignations had long been discussed.
In his official Instagram account, Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo on Monday ensured the public that the project’s development would continue.
“The development of new capital will be continued in line with the shared vision that has been established,” he said.
Bambang Susantono, a former official at the Asian Development Bank who was heading the project and his deputy Dhony Rahajoe, an architect and former real estate developer, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The government has been racing to build infrastructure required for the relocation of the first batch of 12,000 civil servants this September. But the plan has been twice delayed and the resignations come amid a lack of private funding for President Widodo’s signature project.
“These resignations will make people question the project,” said Arya Fernandes, an analyst at Indonesia’s Centre for Strategic and International Studies. “The question is how to convince investors that there is no problem.”
One stumbling block has been the status of land ownership at the new capital site, Public Works Minister Basuki Hadimuljono said at Monday’s news conference.
“We will soon decide on the status of the land,” he said.
“Whether we sell it, rent it or if there will be cooperation between government and companies, we will speed it up so that investors won’t have any doubts.”
Jokowi, as the president is known, plans to visit Nusantara on Tuesday to inaugurate several projects, including schools, while celebrations for Indonesia’s Independence Day are planned there on August 17. He will step down in October after serving the maximum two terms in office.
