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Govt wants to resolve spatial planning of seaport project ahead of Abe visit
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Workers unload 32 electric cars from Japan at Tanjung Priok Port in North Jakarta on Sep. 19, 2014. The government plans to build a deep sea port in Patimban, West Java, to support the overloaded Tanjung Priok Port. (Tempo/M Iqbal Ichsan)
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he government wants to settle the spatial planning (RTRW) adjustment of the Indonesia-Japan joint megaproject of Patimban Seaport in West Java, ahead of a visit by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Jan. 15.
Transportation Ministry’s director general for sea transportation Antonius Tonny Budiono said the government still had to adjust the spatial planning for the regency, provincial and national level.
“I hope that under the coordination of Pak Luhut, it can be done this month if it is possible,” he said on Thursday, referring to Coordinating Maritime Affairs Minister Luhut Pandjaitan.
The adjustment of the spatial planning is one of the administrative requirements in addition to the detailed engineering design (DED) and environmental impact analysis (Amdal) in the government’s bid to secure the loan from its Japanese counterpart for the Patimban project next year.
The government aimed to get the loan from Japan by May for the project. The Blue Book, composed by the National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas) that contains projects to be funded by foreign loans from 2015 to 2019, shows that as much as US$1.7 billion in foreign loans are expected to be channeled into the deep-sea project.
The future Patimban Port will be located about 70 kilometers from the Karawang Industrial Estate in Bekasi, West Java. It will have a container capacity of 1.5 million 20-foot equivalent units (TEUs) once it is partly completed by 2019. (bbn)
