The IKN Project Is Confirmed To Keep Running During The 2024 Eid Holiday, Workers Will Get Incentives

Construction illustration (Photo: dock. Antara)

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing (PUPR) ensures that the progress of the construction of the Nusantara Capital (IKN) megaproject will not be disrupted even though there is a momentum for the Eid al-Fitr or Eid Al-Fitr 2024 holiday.

Head of the IKN Development Task Force (Kasatgas) of the Ministry of PUPR, Danis H Sumadilaga, said that the government is currently preparing a scheme for providing incentives to workers at IKN who will continue to enter during the Eid al-Fitr 2024 holiday.

"We also try to make workers despite fasting and Eid with certain incentives to continue working on completing (the IKN project)," said Danis when met after the Denons HPRP Law and Regulation Outlook 2024 agenda: Towards the New Capital City of the Archipelago in Jakarta, Monday, February 26.

Even so, Danis has not been able to convey the amount of incentives that will be given to these workers. "Again (discussed) to attract the main thing," he said.

If the study on incentives is officially signed, Danis admitted that his party is optimistic that IKN development will run according to the set schedule.

He said that until July 2024, the construction of phase 1 IKN as a whole could penetrate more than 90 percent and a number of supporting infrastructure facilities could already be functional.

"We have calculated it as an illustration like this, calculations because now the progress is 76 percent and the average progress per week is 1-2 percent. If we take an average of 1.5 percent and the remaining time is 16-17 weeks, if we do it's more than 90 percent. So it's functional," he said.

Meanwhile, until the period of February 15, 2024, the progress of phase 1 IKN development has reached 74.87 percent, which includes 40 work packages. Meanwhile, for batch 2, 49 work packages have been running with a progress of 24 percent.

Thus, the Ministry of PUPR noted that a total of 89 construction packages at IKN had cost Rp68.59 trillion.