The North Jakarta administration together with the Jakarta Regional Office for the Law and Human Rights Ministry, held legal education in the context of increasing public legal awareness.

It aims to develop legal information to the public

It held online and offline at the Fatahillah Room, 2nd floor of Block P, North Jakarta Mayor Office.

North Jakarta Law Disivion Head Siti Sumiyati explained that the participants in the legal education were community representatives of Koja Urban Village, consisting of FKDM members, RW heads, LMK heads, elements of the Karang Taruna Youth Organization and public figures.

"It aims to develop legal information to the public, as well as disseminate it to the public regarding existing and new legal products so that the public knows and can understand it," she expressed, Monday (4/5).

She went on to say that the dissemination of legal information through legal education was aimed at increasing public awareness of the prevailing laws. Hopefully, all forms of violation of the law could be minimized as the public knew that there were strict sanctions imposed if they broke the law.

In this legal education, there were a number of sources presented to give material on inheritance law, handling of land disputes based on the Agrarian and Spatial Planning Minister/National Land Agency Head Regulation number 21/2020, as well as the presence of the state through Law number 16/2011 on Legal Aid.

One of the participants was Koja Urban Village's LMK Chairman, Yurisman Syam added that most people did not understand the legal rules regarding land disputes, the ITE Law and others. Through the legal education, he received complete information. Further, the material received would also be conveyed to residents thus they understood each other and complied with applicable legal rules.

"This activity is very good. We become aware and be more careful not to participate in spreading hoax news or information to the wider community as it could be subject to sanctions from the ITE Law," he stated.