By Sedimentary sand disrupts shipping, which also disturbs coral reefs
Jakarta (ANTARA) – Sea sand exports were not conducted due to Singapore’s potential investment in the Nusantara Capital City (IKN) but to extract sand from sedimentation that disrupted shipping and coral reef preservation, President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) stated.
“It is not related to that. Actually, what is in the PP (Government Regulation) is sedimentary sand. Sedimentary sand disrupts shipping, which also disturbs coral reefs,” Jokowi noted after opening the 2023 National Coordination Meeting for Government Internal Monitoring in Jakarta, Wednesday.
The regulation that Jokowi drew attention to is Government Regulation (PP) Number 26 of 2023 on the management of marine sedimentation promulgated on May 15, 2023.
“This meeting has been going on for a long time, still going back and forth, because the direction will be there later,” President Jokowi remarked.
Cabinet Secretary Pramono Anung had earlier stated that despite an article in PP No. 26 of 2023 that allows sea sand exports, not all regions are allowed to send sea sand abroad.
According to Anung, technical rules as derivatives of PP No. 26 of 2023 will be prepared in the form of various ministerial regulations at the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries and Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM), among others, to detail technical provisions and areas that can export sea sand from sedimentation.
“Whether for domestic use or whether to be allowed to export later will be further regulated. For this arrangement, the Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister must make a ministerial regulation regarding this matter on which areas are allowed and which areas are not,” Anung remarked.
Article 9, paragraph 2, of PP No. 26 of 2023 stipulates that marine sediment can be used for domestic reclamation, government infrastructure development, infrastructure development by business actors and/or exports as long as domestic needs have been fulfilled, and the export was done in accordance with the provisions of law.
Moreover, it states that the allocation of domestic sea sand will be subject to a non-tax state revenue fee (PNBP), while for exports, it will be subject to a higher PNBP fee.
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