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President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo inspects a section of a toll road construction project in Gadog village, Bogor, on Tuesday. (thejakartapost.com/Ayomi Amindoni)
T
he development of basic infrastructure facilities has become one of the government’s top priorities to resolve the country’s inefficient logistics system and acute distribution bottlenecks, which have seriously hampered economic development.
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s administration has introduced a number of programs, including a sharp increase in the government’s investment budget to accelerate infrastructure development.
Many problems, however, still hamper the infrastructure development program. The handicaps are not only the lack of funding sources and acutely poor inter-ministerial coordination but also the lack of clear-cut policies to encourage local and foreign participation under the public-private partnership (PPP) scheme.
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The Jakarta Post will issue a special edition to extensively discuss opportunities and challenges in the development of infrastructure facilities, including electricity, roads, seaports, industrial estates and several other basic infrastructures needed to improve connectivity.
The Infrastructure Outlook edition will be published in a magazine format and will be circulated together with the Post’s regular edition on Monday (Aug. 8).
The special edition will carry opinion articles by infrastructure experts and analysts, including the Asian Development Bank’s infrastructure economist Aziz Haydarov, the program director of the Committee for the Acceleration of Priority Infrastructure Delivery (KPPIP), Rainier Haryanto, senior analyst in power plant development Supriadi Legino and Scott Younger, a senior executive of an infrastructure development company.
The topics under discussion include the need to have a high-powered PPP project management center in order to attract more private investment to the infrastructure sector, the role of KPPIP in empowering coordinated infrastructure delivery and the prospects and challenges in power plant construction in the next five years.
The Post will also hold a seminar on the acceleration of Indonesia’s infrastructure development on Tuesday (Aug. 9) in Jakarta.
State-Owned Enterprises Minister Rini Soemarno, Public Works and Public Housing Minister Basuki Hadimuljono and Creative Economy Agency (Bekraf) head Triawan Munaf are expected to deliver keynote speeches at the half-day seminar, which will begin at 9 a.m.
Panelists and speakers at the seminar will include infrastructure investors and experts, as well as senior officials in charge of infrastructure development.
