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GOVT NEEDS RP325 TRILLION FOR ROAD INVESTMENT

Cirebon, Indonesia, April 24 (ANTARA) - The government has estimated a total of Rp325 trillion will be needed for road investment from 2010 to 2014 to support seven percent economic growth target.

"That is the estimate and that is part of the projected Rp10,000 trillion or around Rp1,500 trillion a year in funds for infrastructure development," the director of roads and bridges of the ministry of public works, Hediyanto Husaeni, said at a media gathering here on Saturday.

He said around Rp1,100 trillion of the Rp1,500 trillion a year for the infrastructure development would be met by the government while the rest is expected to come from private parties.

"For road development we estimate a total of Rp325 trillion will be needed for the next five years," he said.

He said public works infrastructure development is carried out based upon an approach of regional infrastructure development for all communities and principles of sustainable development.

"In view of that we divide Indonesia into three zones namely the zone that has already developed, is just developing and being devoloped," he said.

He said the zone that has already developed includes Java, Bali and Sumatra and that which is just development includes Kalimantan, Sulawesi, East Nusa Tenggara and West Nusa Tenggara while that which is going to be developed includes Papua and Maluku islands.

He said total road development until 2009 reached 34,628 kilometers.

Roads categorized as heavily damaged total 320,24 kilometers while those categorized as lightly damaged 4,014 kilometers and those categorized as good and moderate 16,694 kilometers and 13,092 kilometers respectively.

"A total of 506 kilometers of roads are still blocked namely 55 km in Aceh, 58 km in North Sumatra, 29.5 km in Central Sulawesi, 84 km in Maluku and 279.8 km in Papua," he said.

He said in 2010 there are 38,669 kilometer national non-toll and 742 kilometer toll roads under the central government's responsibility.

Meanwhile there are 48,680 kilometer provincial roads and 288,185 kilometer district or city roads.

"This year we will add 4,000 kilometers more roads. This will be borne by the government. This will be a backlog because th budget this year is smaller than the needs," he said adding the budget for this year was Rp16.6 trillion.



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