Jakarta – Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs, Mahfud MD, has informed that the government will form a task force to examine the usage of investment permits in Indonesia’s outer islands.
” The federal government will form a task force to re-examine our outer islands in provinces because there may be an offense in the investment authorization utilization, both in the procedure or content,” he said in his office in Jakarta on Wednesday.
The minister conveyed the details after a coordination meeting in between ministries and agencies concerning the management of the external islands.
Minister of House Affairs Tito Karnavian; Minister of Environment and Forestry Siti Nurbaya Bakar; Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Sakti Wahyu Trenggono; and the Chief of Naval Personnel Admiral Yudo Margono, likewise participated in the conference.
The formation of the task force is the result of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) inked in between the North Maluku provincial federal government, South Halmahera district federal government, and PT Leadership Islands Indonesia (PT LII) relating to using the Widi Islands, which was found to be not in accordance with procedures.
The government has actually canceled PT LII’s MoU for breaching procedures. For instance, the MoU was not endorsed by the Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries.
” The Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries has actually never ever issued an authorization for this. Likewise, in the middle of the things of the MoU, there is a forest covering an area of more than 1,900 hectares, which is really not allowed,” Mahfud informed.
Together with the cancellation, the federal government will re-open the possibility for other parties to make a financial investment by utilizing the island, he included.
” If PT LII is interested, they can register again in accordance with the appropriate laws and guidelines,” the minister stated.
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