Responding To AHY's Statement, Adian Napitupulu According To President Jokowi's Performance Regarding Three Infrastructures

Adian Napitupulu emphasized that there are more infrastructure developments in President Jokowi's era than President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's time. (Twitter?@adianna70fans)

JAKARTA - Member of the Indonesian House of Representatives from the PDI-P faction, Adian Napitupulu, denied the statement by the Chairman of the Democratic Party, Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono (AHY) regarding the scissors of the infrastructure band. According to Adian, AHY conveyed incorrect data about infrastructure claims.

"Commissions for friends in the Democratic Party please don't make AHY proud. It's a pity that you have rented an expensive place, the data submitted is completely wrong," said Adian in his official statement, Sunday, September 18.

Adian also challenged AHY with data facts and numbers to prove his statement.

"We are testing whether AHY's statement is the truth or a lie. We take for example 3 types of infrastructure, hopefully this example is quite representative. As an initial measuring tool for when development, we use it from the construction stage starting," said Adian.

Adian explained about the toll road. The toll road that SBY built in the period 2005 to 2014 ranged from construction to ribbon scissors totaling 189.2 km. Meanwhile, the toll road construction began in the SBY government but was completed by Jokowi in total there were 222 km.

"If the total length of the toll road starts from the Jokowi era in 2015 until later 2023 the total length is 2,290 km," he said.

Regarding the airport, until the end of 2014, continued Adian, SBY completed 24 airports, most of which had been carried out by the president before SBY.

"So SBY only continued in part and then joined the band scissors, not building everything from the start," he said.

Meanwhile, there were 7 airports whose ground-breaking was carried out by SBY, but finally, the number of Jokowi was completed, namely Kertajati, Tebelian, Muara Teweh, Buntukunik, Morowali, Miangas, and Namniwel.

"The airports whose constructions have been started by Jokowi since 2015 and will be completed in 2023, there are a total of 31 airports," said Adian.

Furthermore, several dams began construction in 2014 a few months before SBY's term ended. For example, Tentip Dam, Raknamo, Logung, Gondang and Pidekso.

"The five dams, SBY, maybe only had time to do the groundbreaking ceremony, so about 1 sack of cement and a few stones. Why is that? Because SBY's term of office in 2014 is constitutionally only 10 months," he said.

Adian questioned how many dams SBY played a big enough role even though it was not finished. According to Adian, there are only 13 dams.

"Even so, the settlement remains in Jokowi's hands. People may ask, how many dams were the constructions built by Jokowi and finished in the Jokowi period? In my data from 2015 to 2023 there will be a total of 39 dams, while 4 more will be inaugurated in 2025 bonuses for the next government," said Adian.

Adian also admitted that he would provide data related to this to AHY regarding other infrastructure that had been built by Jokowi starting from 316,590 km village roads, 1,597,529 meters village bridges, 1,474,544 village clean water units, 501,054 village irrigation units.

"Does AHY need other data related to non-toll road national roads, waste infrastructure, electricity, telecommunications, oil, natural gas, sports, tourism, public housing and other types according to Presidential Regulation 38 of 2015?" said Adian Napitupulu.