Govt opens tender for $2.15 billion construction projects | Jakarta Post
(Insider Stories)-About 2,000 packages of road and bridge construction projects worth 20.98 trillion rupiah (US$2.15 billion) across the archipelago are currently under auction as part of the government’s long-term infrastructure development plan, the Jakarta Post reports.
Infrastructure projects have often stalled in Indonesia due to regulatory issues and a lack of funding. But regulatory frameworks for some issues, especially land acquision are seeing improvements that while slow are expected by many observers to continue.
Djoko Murjanto, the director general of highways at the Public Works Ministry, said that the road projects would begin in the second half of 2013 through to the end of 2014. The figure represents 87.94% of the total project packages it plans to put on tender this year and include major projects like Tebing Tinggi-Medan in North Sumatra and Pekanbaru-Dumai in Riau to the Pemali Sipait bridge project in Central Java that is aimed to help reduce congestion between Semarang and Tegal.
Out of the 2,378 packages, he said that 496 packages worth Rp 4.04 trillion were now entering the tender process. The ministry aims to tender as many as 3,134 packages with an investment of IDR28.45 trillion throughout 2013, around a 10% increase from last year.
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