Prabowo Asks Civil Engineering Students To Design And Build Bridges For Access To School Children
JAKARTA - President Prabowo Subianto asked civil engineering students to be deployed directly to the village to build bridges so that children can go to school. The younger generation, he said, must be actively involved in solving problems in the community.
This was conveyed by Prabowo during the 2025 Bank Indonesia Annual Meeting at the BI Building, Central Jakarta on Friday night, November 28. During his speech, he played a video showing the child's struggle in the region to go to school.
In the video, there are children who have to hang on the rope to cross the river. In addition, there are also those who have to hit the current so that the feed is wet.
"And I ask the Minister of Higher Education to later mobilize all students of level 2'3'4 from civil engineering. To enter villages, design and help make these bridges," Prabowo said as quoted from a written statement, Saturday, November 29.
In addition to civil engineering students, continued Prabowo, the National Police and the TNI were also asked to go directly to deploy their members.
"Submit all battalions, all development territorial battalions, all construction companies and other companies, all go down to these villages, look for points. I ask that this be completed in the shortest possible time," he said.
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Prabowo said there are about 300,000 more crossing bridges that need to be repaired so that they can be used by school children in remote areas. "The growth rates are very good. But our people, every day, children, we enter a wet river every day. Sitting in a wet class, come back wet again," said the former Minister of Defense of the Republic of Indonesia.
"This is what I ask us as state managers. We think best. To overcome this, I am forming a special task force, an Emergency Task Force," he continued.
The construction of hundreds of thousands of these bridges, said Prabowo, must be carried out immediately. "Our children shouted. We have to answer," he concluded.