Date of publication: 26-03-2013
The Indonesian Government has taken on the near impossible: building 1.520 km of new roads in less than two years on the rough terrain of Papua and West Papua-the nation's least developed and isolated provinces.
If no private contractors have the ability the task using the allocated budget, proved to be the presidential unit for accelerating the development of Papua and West Papua (UP4B) to the Indonesian military (TNI) for help.
According to the unit, it will the huge infrastructure project the isolated provinces at a cost of 1.5 trillion rupiah (US $ 154 million), also with the help of the Ministry of public works and local authorities open.
A presidential decree must be issued in the next few months authorizing the TNI to such work within the limits of the nation to do will clear the way for more than a 1,000 soldiers of the army's engineering detachment to get to work.
"If we depend on the Ministry and the local authorities to build the roads, it will be about 60 years to complete," said UP4B main expert C N Imam Hidayat. "The TNI deployment is aimed at speeding up the process at a relatively low cost, as it is not looking for any financial profit."
Despite the County's annual budget of about 40 trillion rupiah, the seventh-largest in the nation, Papua remains at the bottom of the list for the development of the infrastructure.
Officials have said that the provincial budget to cover expensive transportation costs and inflated prices because of a lack of roads and ports have been removed.
"Jakarta thinks we a big budget that is sufficient for development," said Pegunungan Bintang deputy regent Yakobus Wayam. "They seem to be ignorant of the fact that most of the funds to transport costs have to be spent.
He added that about 40 percent of the budget went to Regency
subsidizing transportation.
The UP4B wants with the intended route network, bring down the prices of goods and materials so that regional budgets may be efficiently spent on the development of the infrastructure.
"The planned roads will also help accelerate the expansion of health and education services for people who live in the remote areas of the provinces," said C N.
* US $ 1 = 9,765 rupiah
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