JAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development (Menko IPK) Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono discussed handling the Sumatra disaster when he received a visit from the General Chairman of the Indonesian Engineers Association (PII) Ilham Akbar Habibie.
AHY said he had coordinated five ministries under him to accelerate the post-disaster infrastructure recovery in Aceh, North Sumatra, and West Sumatra.
The five ministries include the Ministry of Agrarian and Spatial Planning/National Land Agency (ATR/BPN), the Ministry of Public Works, the Ministry of Transportation, the Ministry of Transmigration, and the Ministry of Housing and Settlements.
"Under the Ministry of ATR/BPN, we want to make sure that the spatial plan becomes the commander of development. It must be the initial reference for development. It should not be arbitrary. Regional heads must also be orderly, disciplined, and must not ignore environmental aspects," said AHY in a statement confirmed in Jakarta, Thursday, quoted by Antara.
In addition, he exemplified that the Ministry of PU is tasked with providing basic infrastructure for development in all sectors, including working to restore access to many broken land transportation.
"Bridges and roads that connect between regions have been broken in the last two weeks, and it is very obstructive. Finally, it has to be done dropping (dropping, red.) logistics by air and ship," he said.
Meanwhile, Ilham Habibie said the performance of the Kemenko IPK was closely related to engineers and PII. Moreover, he said, 40 percent of its members were civil engineering engineers.
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