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The incumbent government has assured investors about the continuity of long-term infrastructure projects in Indonesia as the country enters a transition period
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he incumbent government has assured investors about the continuity of long-term infrastructure projects in Indonesia as the country enters a transition period.
Deputy Coordinating Economic Minister for Infrastructure Luky Eko Wuryanto said Tuesday the current government would start the ground breaking on 15 infrastructure projects, whose development would continue under the administration of president-elect Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo, which will begin in October.
'If these projects are already in the ground-breaking phase, then they will be at a point of no
return and they will continue despite the change in government,' Luky said.
Among the projects are the expansion of Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Tangerang, Banten; the building of the new Kertajati airport in Majalengka, West Java; railways for transporting coal in Central Kalimantan; Jatigede Dam in Sumedang, West Java; and the building of two new power plants in Takalar, South Sulawesi, and in Pangkalan Susu, North Sumatra.
Meanwhile, transportation projects that will begin at the end of President Susilo Bambang Yudho-
yono's administration are toll roads serving Manado-Bitung in North Sulawesi and Balikpapan-Samarinda in East Kalimantan, as well as new roads serving Cilincing-Cibitung in West Java and Palu-Parigi in Central Sulawesi.
'The attitude from the coordinating economic minister is that we should accelerate the development of these projects under his tenure,' Luky said, referring to Chairul Tanjung, who was appointed coordinating economic minister in May.
Jokowi has publicly stated his intention to make some alterations to the development of infrastructure projects in Indonesia, having pledged to pursue maritime-centered economic development in the archipelagic country, which has more than 16,000 islands.
Among the current government's infrastructure development programs that may be scrapped is the wide-ranging Master Plan for the Acceleration and Expansion of Indonesian Economic Development (MP3EI), Jokowi's transition team has confirmed.
