Commission II of the House of Representatives asks the regional government to tighten overseas pemda: not urgent

Jakarta – Chairman of the House of Representatives Commission II Rifqinizamy Karsayuda asked the Interior Ministry (Ministry of Home Affairs) to tighten permits for foreign work for regional heads. Rifqi asked the regional government to focus on overcoming community problems. “For me to visit abroad, it was not urgent to be done for some reason, except to comply with invitations from other countries related to, for example, the existence of a regional head that represents Indonesia on the forum should also make it really clear whether the forum is credible, organized by the local government, or a forum that is less credible,” Rifqi Thursday (9/25/2025). Browse to continue with the content, and Rifqi has also suggested that regional heads who want to seek treatment abroad to maximize domestic facilities. That, he said, was to increase the confidence in domestic health facilities. “That’s why other reasons like treatment and so on, as long as it can still be done in the country, and it is also to build confidence for all the potential that exists in Indonesia, and then the journey does not have to be done and does not have to be open,” he said. The chairman of the Nasdem Party DPP asked that public officials be sensitive to the people. According to him, the well -being of the people is something to be prioritized. “Except of course the reasons for the effectiveness of the budget, and the second is our sensitivity as public officials for the concern of the people and the suffering of the people who have gained us to work for them today,” he said. Therefore, Rifqi has asked the Ministry of Home Affairs to continue to tighten permits abroad for the regional head and ASN regional government. “The Ministry of Home Affairs still has to make a ban and tightening,” he concluded. Home Affairs Minister Tito Karnavian allowed the regional chief and the state’s civil device (ASN) who wanted to travel abroad. Tito requires a art to be done if the situation in the area is safe. “This is a delay in the departure abroad I did yesterday as a result of a vulnerable situation, but now if you want to go abroad throughout the area, I will be sure that I will be safe,” Tito said at a government coordinating meeting in Sumatera in Batam City, Riau Islands, as reported Sunday (9/21). Tito said the granting of permits will be considered for local heads who want to travel officials. He also gave permission as for treatment purposes. “And it is for (travel) service, for medical treatment (power),” he said. (Lir/Yahs)