MLFF System Not Included In The Prabowo PSN List, Minister Of Public Works Opens Voice

Minister of Public Works Dody Hanggodo (center). (Photo: Theresia Agatha/VOI)

JAKARTA - The government has not included a non-stop toll payment system project or Multi Lane Free Flow (MLFF) into the National Strategic Project (PSN) in the National Medium Term Development Plan (RPJMN) for the period 2025-2029.

Minister of Public Works (PU) Dody Hanggodo also opened his voice. Dody said the project still needed an in-depth evaluation to identify problems before governance was fixed.

"For MLFF, right, something I have to strip first. After knowing what the problem is, we will fix the governance," said Dody to reporters at his office, Friday, March 7.

After the governance is improved, the Ministry of Public Works has just submitted the urgency of the project to President Prabowo Subianto to be included in the PSN list.

Dody said the Ministry of Public Works could also inform the benefits of the project.

"We can only inform the President what the importance is. Then what are the benefits and we can propose," said Dody.

Dody explained that the MLFF project had previously been proposed, but it was not realized or its execution stopped. Therefore, the project temporarily did not enter.

However, he stressed that it does not mean that the relevant MLFF or other projects cannot be re-proposed by the relevant ministries.

"Maybe yesterday it was proposed but it didn't happen or there was no execution. Right, yesterday it stopped. We talked about MLFF, yes, didn't talk about anything else. Because it was temporarily abolished," he said.

Previously, Dody said, one of the reasons why the MLFF toll road project had not been implemented was because the budget was still under lockdown.

The Hungarian investment project worth IDR 4.5 trillion from Roatex Ltd, through its subsidiary PT Roatex Indonesia Toll Road System (RITS) is still floating.

Unable to progress due to budget constraints, cannot be resigned because it has a contract with the government.

"When the budget was still locked, I couldn't do anything. If you want to break up, yes, the break is fine. Right, it's good too," said Dody to reporters at his office, Friday, February 21.

The Democrat Party politician did not deny that the MLFF project had indeed become the findings of the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) regarding the government's inadequacy to implement the technology.

Especially the readiness of regulations to the business climate on toll roads, which are currently many players from within the country.

"The BPK audit (related to MLFF) said it was not proper, but we suddenly had to contract. At that time I wasn't what it was like and we didn't need to discuss it," said Dody.

"What I have to do today is clean up the governance first. We have discussed with Hungary, even this has become a discussion with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Kemenlu)," he continued.