TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto said that the national strategic projects (PSN) had resulted in equality development across the country. This was revealed by studies conducted by the Australia-Indonesia Partnership for Economic Development Prospera and other institutions.

He confirmed President Jokowi’s statement that 161 projects had been completed in the past eight years. “PSN brings equality in all regions,” Airlangga said at The Kasablanka Hall, South Jakarta, on Wednesday, September 13, 2023.

He said the government launched strategic projects across the archipelago. There were 15 projects worth Rp179 trillion on Sumatra island, 16 PSN worth Rp81 trillion on Kalimantan island, 17 PSN worth Rp222 trillion on Sulawesi island, 50 PSN totaling Rp244 trillion on Java island, 15 PSN in Bali Nusa amounting to Rp8 trillion, and 10 PSN in Maluku and Papua reaching Rp104 trillion. “And 4 national level PSN,” he added.

The Golkar party chairman also said that the projects were conducted in diverse sectors, such as industry, tourism, trade, residential areas, roads and bridges, energy in the oil and gas sector, airports, smelters, as well as electric vehicle ecosystems such as batteries.

Airlangga assessed that the downstream of the EV ecosystem is the current global megatrend. “With the existence of PSN, thank God, EV products and components as directed by the President [Jokowi] are guaranteed to be made in Indonesia, and this is included in the global value chain of the EV ecosystem,” he said.

The government had completed at least 161 strategic projects worth Rp1,134.9 trillion employing 11 million workers. The projects include a new port, airports, dams with a capacity of 2.73 billion cubic meters to irrigate 288,000 hectares of rice fields, 17.6 gigawatts of power generation, a strategic smelter industrial zone, and a creative economic zone.

Airlangga believed that these proved that the development was evenly distributed throughout the country, not just on Java island.

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