Batam City's 190th Anniversary, Era of The End of the Dualism Authority

TRIBUNBATAM.id, BATAM - Batam City's 190th Anniversary will be commemorated on December 18, 2019.

Batam City, which is now 190 years old, has changed a lot.

Moment of Batam City Anniversary 2019 feels different from previous years because in this year BP Batam and Batam Government are led by one person.

Like two ships, BP Batam and Pemko Batam led by one captain namely Muhammad Rudi.

Batam City has an area of 960.25 km2 with a population of around 1.06 million.

As an industrial city, Batam City initially had two influential institutions namely BP Batam and Pemko Batam. 

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Dualism of authority ensued.

Business people often complain about the dualism of authority.

President Joko Widodo then chose to take strategic steps namely BP Batam and Batam Government must be led by 1 person.

As a result, a decision was made by the Batam Mayor ex-officio, Head of BP Batam.

The Mayor of Batam, Rudi officially served as Head of the Batam Business Entity (BP).

Rudi was appointed as ex-officio Head of BP Batam at the Office of the Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs in Jakarta, Friday (9/27/2019) night. 

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Rudi was inaugurated directly by the Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Darmin Nasution in Jakarta.

Darmin Nasution also appointed Deputy Head of BP Batam and four deputies at BP Batam

Purwiyanto is again trusted as an official at BP Batam. He became Deputy Head of BP Batam.