Bogor Botanical Gardens Manager Call There is no extra fee to bring food from the outside

Jakarta – The manager of the Bogor Botanical Gardens (KRB) rejected the existence of illegal levies (extortion) after the viral woman claimed to have been asked for money to bring food from the outside. The driver said there are different rules and costs for individual visitors and groups that hold opportunities at KRB. “We also convey whether the group group that holds the event is definitely different from (tourist) individuals. For our group, there are costs related to land rent and others,” GM PT Mitra Natura Raya (Mr) Zaenal Arifin said in his statement, Tuesday (8/19/2025). Browse to continue with the content is simply known, PT Mr is a partner at the National Research and Innovation Agency (Brin) who runs the Bogor Botanical Gardens. Zaenal explained, there are land rental fees, speakers and others who have to be paid by groups or communities if they keep opportunities at KRB. “What we really want to do is explain the rules that should be if the group or community holds an event in the botanical gardens. One of the examples, the first there is a sound system that there is a RP 100,000 sound system for 3 hours, for the room 500,000 for 3 hours, at least 50 people,” Zaenal said. “Because she (a viral woman claims she was hit by extortion), there were about 60 people, if I wasn’t wrong, we carried a cost to maintenance, and so on, the calculation of one individual was 15,000. Thus (total cost) about 600 thousand and not paid. What was paid was just the sound system, and HTM, and park, ‘he added. Zaenal ensured that there were no extra fees that visitors had to pay if they brought food from outside the KRB. According to him, additional costs were asked for groups that held events in KRB. “The component is therefore not a charge per person because it carries food, so far there is no ban on food to the botanical gardens, it is allowed,” Zaenal said. “But in general, which holds an event and left a lot of garbage after the event. That’s why we make rules for the event, we carry the charge component for maintenance,” he added. Viral report viral on social media A woman said he was asked for RP. 700 thousand for holding an opportunity at the Bogor Botanical Gardens. The Bogor botanical gardens denied that there was extortion. Judging by AFP of the viral video, the woman said she was making an office event in the Bogor Botanical Gardens. The woman said her staff was asked to pay RP. 15 thousand per person. “So yesterday I made an office opportunity in the Bogor Botanical Gardens, so when I played, I see my staff, my assistant, where is it? Then my staff said, he was brought security. He said we should pay again. 15,000 per person, because we brought food from outside, ‘a woman said in a viral video. “Since when there are rules to pay rp. 15,000 per person because we bring food from outside,” he said again. Zaenal said the incident happened last Monday (11/8). He mentions the presence of security to question the activities held because there was no notice to the CRB manager. “It was the incident on Monday the 11th (August), a week ago. There was a group of communities who wanted to hold an opportunity, and there was no confirmation to the manager of the Botanical Gardens to keep an opportunity on the spot,” Zaenal said. “At the time, we, from security officers, questioned what activities were going on, and of course we had very clear rules, if there were groups or communities that wanted to keep events in the botanical gardens,” he added. (Sol/WHN)