Melongok Tuntu Gajah Di Tol Pekanbaru-Dumai, Jokowi: Pembangunan Infrastruktur Penting Pay Attention To The Environment

Pekanbaru-Dumai Toll Road

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) reminded that attention must still be given when building infrastructure. This was conveyed by Jokowi after seeing an elephant tunnel on the Pekanbaru-Dumai Toll Road today, Thursday, January 5.

"In infrastructure development throughout the country, I also continue to remind you of the importance of paying attention to the environment. As we build the Pekanbaru-Dumai Toll Road. There are tunnels to pass elephants," Jokowi said in a YouTube broadcast by the Presidential Secretariat, Thursday, January 5.

Jokowi said that six tunnels were made under toll roads so as not to interfere with elephant crossings. In the show, Jokowi saw a herd of elephants passing through the tunnel.

"This does not interfere with the existing elephant crossings," he said.

The former governor of DKI Jakarta said other places must also follow this kind of tunneling. The goal is to preserve animals around the infrastructure that is built not to be disrupted.

"For example, passing through tiger crossings, there must be a tunnel so that the wild animal track continues as it is," said Jokowi.

"Through the tiger, bull, I think in some places there are indeed we build trajectories tunnels for protected animals to preserve the wildlife environment," he continued.

As for the tunnel review, Jokowi was accompanied by a number of ministers. They include PUPR Minister Basuki Hadimuljono, SOE Minister Erick Thohir who also saw a herd of elephants passing through a tunnel from the top of the toll road.