Bobby Nasution's Stance Makes Branching Fields, Burying City Anecdotes With Million Holes

MEDAN - Medan children certainly know the anecdote of 'The City of a Million Holes'. Damaged roads that are very disturbing automatically make road users uncomfortable.

This issue is also the concern of the candidate for Mayor of Medan, Bobby Nasution. Tajir, Neat, now Branching. Bobby Nasution's new program in the Medan Pilkada is given the acronym of clean, beautiful, no holes.

In the Medan Pilkada, candidate number 2 who is paired with Gerindra cadre, Aulia Rachman, has a series of reform concepts for Medan City. For infrastructure, Bobby once quipped how the Medan City Government treated this big city.

"(Regarding) the program, we have seen from yesterday, convey what we have changed is how our bureaucracy can be clean, transparent. Medan City already has IDR 30 trillion. The road is still damaged and flooded, ”said Bobby after undergoing a medical in Medan, Wednesday, September 9.

Now, Bobby Nasution offers the concept of the Branching Medan program. This idea was mentioned by Bobby as a result of the complaints of Medan residents about the condition of their city.

"Lots of trash, dirty, potholes everywhere". I always hear that sentence when picking up the aspirations of residents from various sub-districts in Medan City. Complaints from residents about these problems are in line with my commitment and Bang Aulia Rachman in the program to fix the city of Medan. Through the spirit of collaboration, we will create a Branched Field (Clean, Beautiful, No Holes). God willing, a blessing, ”said Bobby, Monday, October 19.

In his presentation, President Joko Widodo's son-in-law mentioned the perception of residents about Medan as a city with a million holes. Minimal construction and maintenance of road infrastructure.

Therefore, Medan Branch is one of the priority programs to make Medan City clean, beautiful without holes. Clean because of integrated waste management, beautiful because of the many green open spaces (RTH). Including there are no holes because road infrastructure development is in accordance with standards.

"If it used to be called a flooded city, a million holes, then in the future it will be changed. Because the existing budget is very sufficient, at least in 5 years 100,000 holes will be reduced, ”said Bobby Nasution.

Previously, Bobby Nasution initiated the Smart Medan program. This program provides 1,000 scholarships for high achieving students to continue their studies including overseas.

"We will give 1,000 scholarships to outstanding students. The scholarship program can be used to study abroad," said Bobby Nasution, Friday, October 16.

The Medan Pintar Program includes Taman Baca, Creative Hub in 21 sub-districts of Medan as a space for expression. There is also adaptation and normalization of the learning system with digital innovation and transformation.

Then the acceptance of new students (PPDB) which is proportional and based on student achievement and the provision of free school buses for students.

"Education is one of the most important things to achieve progress. Through the Medan Pintar program, bang Aulia Rachman and I are determined to improve the quality of education for the nation's next generation. Their future is our collective responsibility, ”said the son-in-law of Joko Widodo (Jokowi) who has the tagline Medan Berkah Collaboration.