Kenneth DPRD DKI: recess activities are not formalities, but must be realized!

Jakarta – Every member of the DKI Jakarta Regional Representative Council (DPRD) has a constitutional obligation to perform recess activities, namely the period where members of the council go directly to their respective Electoral District (DAPIL) to record the community’s pursuit. The recess or absorbent activities of the community’s pursuit are not only formality activities, but an important part of the representation function of people’s representatives, to ensure that the provincial government policy and programs really answer the needs of Jakarta citizens of the most basic level. DKI Jakarta DPRD member of the PDI Perjuangan faction, Hardiyanto Kenneth, argued the aspirations of the community, recess or recording the aspirations of the community is an important way for members of the council to bridge and align the needs of the community and government policy. Browse to continue with the content “recess or absorbent community aspirations is a time when we as members of the Council directly hear the sound of the pursuit of the people in our respective election districts. It is important. For without the recess or the recording of the aspirations of this community, we will not face the problems that the community faces in the field,” According to the man who is called Bang Kent known, many problems in the community are not officially recorded in the bureaucratic report, but it stems from direct interaction during the recess or to take up the pursuit of this community. From infrastructure problems, education and health services, to social complaints such as flooding or social assistance. “Sometimes what looks good in the official report is not necessarily the same as the one in the field. The recess or the absorbent pursuit of the community can give us authentic and accurate information and votes to fight for official meetings,” he said. DKI Jakarta DPRD, PDI Perjuangan faction Hardiyanto Kenneth when he realized the pursuit of the community delivered during the recess event he held. Photo. DOC: DKI DPRD. In addition, the member of Commission C of the DKI Jakarta DPRD says, the recess or the absorbent pursuit of the community may be an indication of the proximity of members of the Council with voters. By being directly present in the community so that it can trust the public in legislative institutions. “The results of the recess or absorption of the pursuit of this community are not only housed, but must be followed and realized in the form of recommendations to the government. It is a form of the supervisory and budgetary function we manage,” he said. Therefore, the head of the DKI Jakarta PDI Perjuangan Disaster Management Agency (Baguna) asked all regional work units (SKPD) to provide full support to all the results of the recess or absorb the results of the Member of the DKI Jakarta DPRD, because the results of the recess of the process of the process must be assessed and be judged on the process of planning and the direct of the aspirical of the community to be. development. According to Kent, the recess or the absorbent pursuit of the community of each member of the Council is regulated in various laws and regulations, including Act number 23 of 2014 regarding Regional Government, section 108 (Letters I, J and K), each member of the provincial DPRD is required to collect and collect the aspirations of the constituents by ordinary work visits; accommodate and follow up about the pursuit and complaints of the community; and offers moral and political accountability to voters in the constituent area. And also Permendagri number 86 of 2017 stating that the results of the recess are one source of data aspirations of the community that should be considered and synchronized in the Musrenbang in the Musrenbang. “The SKPD is thus legally and functionally obliged to study the results of the recess or absorption of the aspirations of the people formalized by each member of the Council, to accommodate, follow, and realize. Just an institutional routine agenda, but a concrete manifestation of the participating democracy. decide, ‘he said. (MPR/EGA)