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Jokowi inspects Lampung roads after viral TikTok complaint
The poor roads in the province became a nationwide topic following a viral TikTok video created by Sydney-based Lampung student Bima Yudho Saputro.
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President Joko “Jokowi“ Widodo disembarks from the Presidential Aircraft at Radin Inten II Airport in Lampung on May 5, 2023. (The Jakarta Post/Twitter/Jokowi)
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resident Joko "Jokowi" Widodo arrived in Lampung on Friday for a brief inspection of infrastructure in Sumatra’s southernmost province after a viral TikTok video lamenting local administration inaction over damaged roads grabbed national attention.
"This morning, I arrived at Radin Inten II [airport] for a working visit in Lampung, together with the Public Works and Housing Minister, State-owned Enterprises Minister and the Trade Minister," he posted on his Twitter account @jokowi.
The President said that he specifically planned to visit South Lampung regency, where local residents said they had suffered the most from worsening road conditions.
Soon after arriving in Lampung, he visited one of Lampung’s traditional markets, the Natar Market in the South Lampung regency on the outskirts of Bandar Lampung, where he made the point that the poor quality of the roads could induce inflation by way of increased logistics costs.
Jokowi said that the price of staple foods such as eggs, chili peppers, garlic and shallots were still affordable at the market as supply was still abundant, however, this was dependent on the logistics costs needed to bring the goods from farm to market.
"The cost of logistics depends on the good or bad quality of our infrastructure," Jokowi told reporters at the market.
