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View all search resultsAccording to a joint study by researchers from James Cook University in Australia, the University of Indonesia and Mulawarman University in Samarinda, East Kalimantan, the completed highway and railway will “fragment and destroy cast areas of tropical rainforests on the island of Borneo”.
The government claims it has ensured the under-construction New Yogyakarta International Airport (NYIA) would have a good system for mitigating natural disasters, shrugging off experts’ concerns that it would be prone to earthquakes and tsunami.
State-owned construction company Wijaya Karya (Wika) has announced that it has won infrastructure development contracts in 10 countries: Algeria, Malaysia, Myanmar, Niger, Nigeria, the Philippines, Senegal, Chinese Taipei, Timor Leste and the United Arab Emirates.
Bank Indonesia Governor Perry Warjiyo has said involving the private sector in financing the government's infrastructure projects could boost economic growth to 6.5 percent from around 5 percent at present.
Coordinating Economic Minister Darmin Nasution has said that the construction of national strategic infrastructure projects may be postponed for up to six years as the government is trying to reduce the current account deficit (CAD).
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