The Deli Serdang Regional Legislative Council (DPRD) officially ratified the Draft Regional Regulation (Ranperda) on the Regional Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMD) for 2025-2029 into a regional regulation (Perda) during a plenary meeting.
The plenary session, led by Vice Chairman I of the Deli Serdang DPRD Agustiawan Saragih, was attended by Deputy Regent Lom Lom Suwondo in place of Regent Asri Ludin Tambunan.
The Chairman of the Regional Regulation Formation Body (Bapemperda) of the Deli Serdang DPRD, Dr. Misnan Aljawi, presented several notes and recommendations as part of the approval process for the RPJMD Draft Regulation, including:
- Urging the Deli Serdang Regency Government to conduct a technical study on school construction plans based on area size and population per district to ensure equitable distribution of public school buildings, especially at the elementary and junior high levels, and to expand educational access for both public and private institutions.
- Strengthening regional food security by improving farmers’ access to fertilizers, agricultural tools, and enhancing farmer resources and agricultural product distribution.
- Encouraging three official channels in development planning: tiered development planning meetings (village/sub-district, district, and regency levels), regional apparatus forums, and legislative member proposals—all to be formally documented as official planning and public policy channels with fair and proportional allocation.
- Legislative member proposals represent bottom-up public aspirations and participatory policy planning. The DPRD urges collaboration between the legislative and executive branches to formalize these proposals in future Deli Serdang budget documents.
- Promoting increased vocational training and entrepreneurship programs through job training centers to prepare skilled workers and entrepreneurs.
- Ensuring the continuation of paving block projects in villages and sub-districts already listed in the 2025 budget, as planning has undergone tiered consultations. Shifting funding responsibility to villages is deemed inappropriate given existing infrastructure regulations.
- Requesting additional public junior high schools in densely populated districts such as Percut Seituan, Sunggal, and Tanjung Morawa.
- Urging the construction of a government hospital in high-density districts like Percut Seitun and Sunggal.
- Ensuring equal attention and assistance to both public and private schools, as all serve Deli Serdang residents.
- Implementing free legal aid for low-income residents facing legal issues.
- Addressing contract worker layoffs, particularly in the DPRD Secretariat, and seeking regulatory solutions for rehiring.
- Expediting the hiring of 2,410 contract workers already listed in the National Civil Service Agency (BKN) database, as mandated by central authorities.
- Maintaining paving block projects under the Housing and Settlement Office, as they were proposed during legislative recesses, rather than shifting funding to villages, which has proven ineffective.
- Implementing a proportional system for physical development projects: 50% from development planning meetings and 50% from legislative proposals.
- Revising district-level spatial planning regulations (RDTR).
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Deputy Regent Lom Lom Suwondo explained that Regent Asri Ludin Tambunan’s absence was due to his participation in an event with North Sumatra Governor Bobby Nasution.
“The Regent had a scheduled meeting with the Governor to discuss matters with the Minister at the Governor’s Office,” he said.
With the RPJMD’s ratification, Suwondo expressed confidence in collective efforts to develop Deli Serdang.
“Today, the people of Deli Serdang stand united in building a better, healthier, smarter, and more sustainable future,” he
