New Capital City to Use State and Private Funding Scheme: Jokowi
Translator
Ricky Mohammad Nugraha
Editor
Petir Garda Bhwana
Rabu, 18 Desember 2019 12:49 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - President Jokowi says that not all construction projects for Indonesia’s new capital city in East Kalimantan will not be exclusively funded by the government’s budget. He said private industries will need to be involved.
“Yes [the constructions] must be outspread. We cannot work on it ourselves. The state budget would be depleted that way,” said Jokowi in dialogue with journalists at the Hotel Novotel in East Kalimantan today.
His statement also responds to those alleging him of intentionally using the capital city move as a scheme to handover projects to other parties outside the government.
“It’s troublesome when people’s minds remain negative about this,” said Jokowi.
Moreover, he says that the government intends to not overburden the national state budget and find external funding sources that are practiced by other international governments, which he says will be done in a partnership between the government-to-business cooperation (KPBU) and private investments.
