BELITUNG - The government of East Belitung Regency, Bangka Belitung Islands Province, this year has prepared a budget of IDR 27 billion for road infrastructure development.

"This year we have prepared IDR 27 billion from the DAK and the 2022 APBD," said the Head of the East Belitung Regency Public Works and Spatial Planning Agency, Idwan Fikri in Koba, as quoted by Antara, Wednesday, January 12.

The DAK is intended for the construction of agricultural roads, namely Batu Turtle-Gusong Cina and Manggar-Mudong. As for tourism and plantations in Nyuruk-Tungkup.

For the Regional Revenue and Expenditure Budget (APBD) East Belitung Regency will prioritize repairing the Birah-Selinsing shortcut access road.

Idwan added, in 2021 the PUPR Service will work on seven road construction projects and periodic road improvement and maintenance.

The activities consist of, road improvement in Simpang Pesak sub-district along 1.6 kilometers with a budget of Rp. 3.2 billion, improvement of Manggar-Mudong road along 1.3 kilometers with a budget of Rp. 1.9 billion.

Then the maintenance of the Birah – Selinsing road along the 5.1 kilometers, the Reconstruction of the Batu Turtle-Gusung China Road with a budget of Rp. 2.8 billion with a budget of Rp.

"We are also constructing a Batu Begalang tourist access road, which is a 2.5 kilometer long road with a budget of IDR 1 billion. In addition, there is also a 6.5 kilometer long road maintenance project in Manggar District with a budget of IDR 4.4 billion.

Idwan admitted that the number of road activity packages in 2021 was much higher than in 2020, which was only three packages.

"In the Bina Marga Sector, in 2020 many of our activities will be refocused. So in 2021 there will be more than 2020," explained Idwan.


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