- Arianti Widya
VIVA – The Indonesian President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) emphasized that infrastructure improvement is important for the logistic and production roads, so as not to be disturbed. Because if the roads are disturbed, it may increase logistics costs, and trigger inflation.
"Do not let the logistics routes, production roads are badly damaged, it will interfere and will increase logistics costs, increase inflation. So, that is our goal in improving infrastructure," the President said in his statement at SMK Pertanian Pembangunan Negeri (PPN) 1 Kualuh Selatan, North Labuhanbatu Regency, North Sumatra Province, on Wednesday.
Therefore, the President said that the Government will immediately repair damaged roads in North Sumatra Province. The repair is not only for the Gunting Saga Road that the President directly inspected but also for roads in Asahan.
"Insya Allah, in July, everything has started, and not only in North Labuhanbatu, including in Asahan because our identification is complete," he added.
In addition to the two roads, President Widodo also said that repairs will be carried out on other roads in North Sumatra Province. "But not only in North Sumatra, we will also check other provinces one by one," he added.
Furthermore, the President said that the Government has prepared a budget of IDR 800 billion to repair all roads in North Sumatra Province.
The President also reminded us that provincial and regency/city governments still have the responsibility to repair the roads they are responsible for.
"We want to help, speed up, repair because of the people's complaints," he emphasized.
