TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Ministry of Transportation ensured ten to thirteen of 33 port construction projects listed in the budget period of 2009-2014 are still afoot. While the rest projects had been changed the functional and even several projects had been stopped due to the terrible planning and execution.
“The central regulation should be stern. Until 2019, there are 306 planning projects, but the fiscal capacity is only 35 percent of the total need,” said the Ministry’s Inspector General Wahju Satrio Utomo, yesterday, April 27.
Wahju explained the government will prepare several options so that the 33 port project constructions that cost Rp2.8 billion would not be in vain. He called on the regional government who willing to continue the project or shift the project’s function to contribute the effort by providing the land.
The Ministry’s Sea Transportation Director General Agus H. Purnomo mentioned some regional governments have requested to continue the port project including Berau Regency (East Kalimantan), Pacitan Regency (East Java), and West Sumatra Province.