TEMPO.CO, Temanggung - The Government plans to build around 60 small suspension bridges this year because those bridges are considered to provide direct benefit to the people.
President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo expressed this plan after officiating Galeh River suspension bridge in Bulu district, Temanggung regency, Central Java province on Saturday (17/6).
He believed that it shows that government are determined to develop infrastructure equally across Indonesia without favoritism.
"I officiate big bridges, but the small ones are equally important for infrastructure. With this suspension bridge, logistics distribution, people and goods mobility will be much faster," the President added.
He explained that suspension bridges seem insignificant in terms of infrastructure, yet in reality suspension bridges confer great benefit to ease the transport of people, goods and commodity which result in efficiency in cost and time.
The condition of Indonesia’s topography is another reason for the government to build more suspension bridges. Since 2015, the government have begun to build 10 suspension bridges in Banten and 4 in Magelang. Nevertheless, the regions that urgently need suspension bridges are Papua and Sulawesi.
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