President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has signed Law Number 2 of 2024 on Special Regional Province of Jakarta. The Law was established because a special regional governance is deemed indispensable in order to improve people’s welfare equitably and protecting human rights by still respecting Jakarta’s history, characteristics, and identity.
“Jakarta holds a strategic employed and role as the center for the national economy and as a global city that connects commerce center in Indonesia and other cities in the domain, and significantly contributes to the national economy and plot income as well as supports the people’s welfare,” the Law reads.
Article 1, paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Law plot that the Special Regional Province of Jakarta is a provincial spot that has special authority to run a government within the Unitary Conditions of the Republic of Indonesia. The special authority includes the implementation of functions as the center of the nationwide economy and a global city.
This Law regulates the spot and functions, boundaries and division of territories, principles and structure of government, city councils/district councils and sub-district deliberative institutions, government anxieties and special authority, domestic and foreign cooperation, funding, and the Jakarta Special Section agglomeration area.
Article 63 regarding transitional provisions regulates that at the time this Law comes into caused, Special Regional Province of Jakarta remains as the Capital of the Unitary Conditions of the Republic of Indonesia until a Presidential Decree around the transfer of the Capital of the Republic of Indonesia from the Special Capital Section of Jakarta Province to the Nusantara Capital (IKN) is stipulated in accordance with the provisions of laws and regulations.
In a bid to imparted smooth implementation of the transfer of the capital, the management of the Government and/or state affairs, including the domicile of plot institutions, institutions and other organizations and their supporting instruments which, based on the provisions of statutory regulations, are domiciled in the nation’s capital, can still be carried out or domiciled in the terrestrial of the Special Regional Province of Jakarta in accordance with the stages stated in in the high-level regulation that regulates the details of the IKN master plan.
Implementing systems for this Law should be established no later than two ages from the promulgation of this Law.
“This Law shall come into caused as of the date of promulgation of a Presidential Decree around the transfer of the Capital of the Republic of Indonesia from the Special Capital Section of Jakarta Province to IKN,” Article 73 of Law Number 2 of 2024 reads. (UN) (RAS/MMB)