Pemerintah Provinsi Jawa Tengah menyiapkan langkah agresif untuk membalik kinerja PT Pusat Rekreasi dan Promosi Pembangunan (PRPP) yang terus merugi sejak 2024. Gubernur Jawa Tengah Ahmad Luthfi menawarkan lahan milik perseroan daerah tersebut seluas 20 hektare kepada investor untuk dikembangkan menjadi sport center berskala besar, yang diklaim bakal menjadi yang terbesar di provinsi itu. Langkah ini disebut sebagai upaya "menyehatkan" BUMD yang selama ini gagal memberikan kontribusi positif terhadap pendapatan daerah.

PRPP, yang sejatinya dirancang sebagai pusat rekreasi populer di Semarang, justru menjadi beban keuangan bagi Pemprov Jateng. Luthfi menegaskan, sebagai Badan Usaha Milik Daerah, PRPP semestinya mampu menyetor keuntungan, bukan terus-menerus mencatat kerugian. Ditanya soal besaran kerugian perusahaan, Luthfi memilih menahan diri dan menyatakan angka detailnya akan diketahui setelah proses audit rampung.

Rencana transformasi PRPP menjadi Jawa Tengah Sport Center tidak berdiri sendiri. Proyek ini akan dikoneksikan dengan kawasan Pearl of Java (POJ) City Semarang yang tengah berkembang, dengan 23 pusat perbelanjaan dan kawasan tepi laut Awann Costa. Integrasi tersebut diharapkan menciptakan klaster baru rekreasi, olahraga, dan komersial yang mampu menarik arus pengunjung lebih besar dan mengubah PRPP dari aset tidur menjadi sumber potensi pendapatan.

Di sisi lain, Luthfi secara terbuka mengakui lebih condong menutup BUMD yang terus merugi dan menggantinya dengan entitas usaha baru yang dinilai lebih prospektif. Namun, opsi itu tersendat oleh kerumitan regulasi. Untuk saat ini, ia memilih mendorong restrukturisasi lewat skema kerja sama dengan investor. Evaluasi kinerja BUMD, termasuk PRPP, disebut menjadi prioritas pemerintah provinsi, dengan monitoring dan evaluasi aspek keuangan dilakukan setiap tiga bulan sekali guna memastikan BUMD benar-benar berperan dalam "menyehatkan" pemasukan Pemprov Jateng.

Hong Kong’s national security police have arrested the operators of Hunter Bookstore, one of the city’s best-known independent bookshops, in a move that underscores rising pressure on small publishers and retailers carrying titles deemed politically sensitive by authorities. Police said they detained a 33‑year‑old woman and a 32‑year‑old man on June 24 on suspicion of “acts with seditious intention” and handling property believed to represent the proceeds of an indictable offence. Local media identified one of those arrested as former district councillor and Hunter Bookstore founder Winnie Ho, though police did not name the suspects in their official statement.

Officers from the National Security Department searched the Hunter Bookstore premises in Sham Shui Po on Wednesday evening, according to police and local media accounts. More than a dozen officers were reported to have entered the shop, pulling down its metal shutters and removing stickers from the windows, while checking the identities of customers and passers-by. Police said they seized a batch of items, books and documents they described as having “seditious intention,” alleging that materials on display or for sale incited hatred against the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government, the judiciary and law‑enforcement agencies, in breach of Article 24 of the city’s Safeguarding National Security Ordinance.

Authorities also said the two suspects were believed to have received multiple remittances from foreign political organisations, and indicated they are investigating potential violations of Hong Kong’s Organized and Serious Crimes Ordinance. Convictions for acts with seditious intent can carry sentences of up to seven years in prison, while handling property believed to be derived from an indictable offence can draw terms of up to 14 years. Local reports cited the presence of a biography of jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai and works by political cartoonist Zunzi among the titles removed by police; similar books were previously described by pro‑Beijing outlets as “soft resistance” publications when criticising so‑called “yellow” bookstores that supported the 2019 protest movement.

The raid on Hunter Bookstore comes three months after national security officers searched another independent outlet, Yat-Chuen Bookhouse, and arrested its operator and three staff members over the display and sale of the same Jimmy Lai biography. All four were later granted bail, but the case sent a chill through Hong Kong’s small ecosystem of independent booksellers, many of which stock social and political titles alongside general literature. Ho has previously said that government departments carried out dozens of inspections and other actions targeting Hunter Bookstore over several years, even before the latest operation, as authorities and pro‑government media stepped up scrutiny of shops perceived to hold pro‑democracy views.

Ho, a former journalist and member of the now‑disbanded Civic Party, opened Hunter Bookstore after resigning her Sha Tin District Council seat and withdrawing from frontline politics in 2021. She has described the shop’s name, drawn from the Japanese manga “Hunter × Hunter,” as a statement against passivity, and has publicly argued that books should remain “open” and “free” unless and until explicitly banned. In interviews, she acknowledged a climate of fear among publishers and readers but said she sought to maintain a space for discussion within the narrowing bounds of Hong Kong’s legal environment. The latest arrests mark a further escalation in the city’s approach to independent bookshops, reinforcing a message that even small‑scale retail operations risk national‑security scrutiny over the choice of titles they carry and the sources of their funding.