Commission V of the DPR Kemmends agreed to free the transmigration villages from the forest area

Jakarta – Commission V of the Indonesian Parliament and the Ministry of Villages and Research Law Regions (Kemendes PDT) agreed that all towns and transmigration areas be released from the forest or national park areas. Both support the existence of a comprehensive legal product from the release. This was revealed by the Deputy Chairman of the House of Representatives Commission v Robert Rouw at a work meeting with the PDT Ministry and the Ministry of Transmigration which discussed the existence of towns and transmigration areas declared in the Bos/National Park Area, in the House of Representatives, Senayan, Tuesday (16/9/2025). Robert Rouw said his party needed the Ministry of PDT and the Ministry of Transport to improve the coordination in the acceleration of data stock, field verification and the process of releasing towns and transmigration areas from the forest or national park areas. Browse to continue the content “Commission V of the Indonesian Parliament agreed with the Ministry of PDT and the Ministry of Transport to execute the mandate of Article 98 paragraph 6 MD3,” Robert Rouw said. Meanwhile, the Minister of Town and Development of underprivileged regions (Mendes PDT) Yandri Susanto said in his presentation that the discussion related to towns in the forest area was very urgent because it involved the rights of community life, bush sustainability and the interests of national and global development. At present, the number of towns in the forest area reaches 2 966 towns, while the number of towns on the rand/around the forest area reaches 15.481 towns. According to him, many villages within the borders of forest areas are without clear legal status. If not resolved immediately, the town will continue to experience administrative uncertainty and problems with the development program. In addition, the government and franchisees will overlap the interests of the community, and this will cause conflict between the community and the long -standing state or private sector. Forest villagers are usually dependent on the forest to live, if not resolved immediately, according to him, the village community will remain structural poor, because economic access is limited by forestry rules. “Economic pressure can encourage deforestation, rural communities are not productive, so there is no food and energy independence,” Yandri said. His party together with the relevant ministries/institutions will regard the forest area as the administrative area of ​​the village government and as the property of the residents. The state forest area run by the community, which includes socio -economic, cultural and religious life of the community, is changed to social forestry or other appropriate schemes. In addition, its party offers recommendations to implement the Village Administration Area Enclave scheme, which includes villagers, social facilities and public facilities as a whole. “Access rights to the use and management of forest areas for village welfare and village communities whose area is partly within the forest area, and some are outside as the enclave scheme of village administration areas cannot be executed, such as national parks,” Yandri said. Also watch video: Festival Bangun Desa Bangun Indonesia starts with gymnastics with citizens (Eva/DHN)