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Government to tender 3 PPP drinking water projects in 2017
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Women attend an educational session about the importance of consuming safe drinking water. (-/Courtesy of Ipung Dyah Kurniasasi)
T
he government will open tender bids for three public-private partnership (PPP) drinking water projects in the Lampung provincial capital of Bandar Lampung, the West Java town of Jatiluhur—its second project—and in Karian, Banten.
Public Works and Public Housing Ministry's Cipta Karya director general Sri Hartoyo, overseeing public housing and utilities, said new feasibility studies for the projects were almost complete and ready for tender.
Those projects had been offered in 2015 but failed to get investors, he added. "We will offer [the projects] again to both domestic and foreign investors," he said at a Health Ministry public event in Jakarta.
The Bandar Lampung and Karian projects cost approximately Rp 900 billion (US67.68 million) of third-party investment each, while the Jatiluhur II project requires Rp 1.8 trillion investment. All three drinking water systems aim be completed before 2019.
Hartoyo added that the project in Bandar Lampung would be subsidized because of the mismatch between the normal selling price and the local purchasing power, given the 28 kilometer-long pipes that needed to be constructed from the reservoir to the Bandar Lampung city center, as well as the 517-kilometer piping network to be installed within the city. (bbn)
