Criminal Sanctions Await the Destroyer of the Castle of Kartasura Palace
KOMPAS.COM – Responding to breaking through the walls of the Kartasura Palace Fort more than 3 centuries old, the Cultural Conservation Preservation Center (BPCB) Central Java Province will take legal action.
The break-in incident occurred on Thursday (21/4/2022) by land buyers in the fort area.
The head of BPCB for Central Java Province, Sukronedi, stated that the Citadel wall The Kartasura Palace that was broken into has been registered as a cultural heritage. So the existence of the building must be protected.
His party had visited the walls of the Kartasura Palace Fort which uprooted with heavy equipment in Krapyak Kulon Village RT 002/RW 010, Kartasura Village, Kartasura District, Sukoharjo, Central Java, Saturday (23/4/2022).
The purpose of his visit is to coordinate with related parties for further treatment.
We are indeed coordinating with related parties in order to the first to stop this activity, and the second to coordinate next steps, said Sukronedi in Kartasura, Sukoharjo, Central Java.
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Based on Law (UU) No. 11 of 2010 concerning Conservation Culture, whoever destroys cultural heritage can be subject to sanctions imprisonment or fines.
Because this has been the process of determining it as a cultural heritage and the result The study has been carried out by a team of cultural heritage experts and is in the process the determination of the regent, it is very strong that this Kartasura Palace Fortress has been designated as a cultural heritage, said Sukronedi.
The status of the fort walls of the Kartasura Palace as a cultural heritage, make anyone who damages will be subject to criminal sanctions.
Sukronedi said that the PPNS Korwas and the police would work together to prosecute criminals.
