Coordinating Minister Airlangga: Infrastructure Development Helps Achieve Economic Growth Target

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JAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for the Economy Airlangga Hartarto said that the 2022 period is a key year in pursuing the achievement of medium-term and long-term economic growth targets. According to him, this can be accelerated with infrastructure development

In addition, the impact of infrastructure development is expected to be felt directly for the community, such as in the activities of fulfilling the basic needs of the community, increasing access to connectivity and mobility, increasing energy and food, as well as equity.

"In an effort to achieve the 2022 economic growth target of 5.2 percent, the role of infrastructure development is very important as one of the driving wheels of the national economy," he said in a press statement quoted on Tuesday, January 25.

Airlangga added that infrastructure also has an important role in leveraging the world perception index (business) towards determining the right investment location, which is quantitatively stated in the ranking of the ease of doing business index (EoDB).

"In order to realize the transformation of the economy and EoDB, we hope that there will be an increase in national infrastructure by 49.4 percent of GDP by the end of 2024, this is of course achieved with the National Strategic Project," he said.

Furthermore, efforts to improve the quality of local human resources, especially various activities related to infrastructure, are an opportunity to employ domestic capabilities, domestic engineers, and domestic contractors.

"Collaboration and synergy are the key so that we can continue to work together, in finding solutions for creative funding sources, in order to reduce the burden of our dependence on the APBN, one of which is through the use of infrastructure that has been built (asset recycling)," concluded the Coordinating Minister for Airlangga.