Jokowi Will Ceremony August 17, 2024 At IKN, Ministry Of PUPR Targets The Construction Of The State Palace-Presidential Office To Be Completed In July 2024

Pembangunan Istana Negara dan Kantor Presiden di Ibu Kota Negara (IKN) Nusantara, Kalimantan Timur. (Foto: Dok. Kementerian PUPR)

JAKARTA - Minister of Public Works and Public Housing (PUPR) Basuki Hadimuljono said the construction of the State Palace and Presidential Office in the State Capital (IKN) of the Archipelago, East Kalimantan, will be completed in July 2024.

According to the plan, President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) will hold a ceremony on August 17, 2024 in the new capital city.

"In front of the Presidential Palace area, there is a plaza and a ceremonial field. We hope that by the end of December 2023 the ceremony will be completed. Meanwhile, the State Palace and the Presidential Office will be completed in July 2024. So, God willing, if the President plans a ceremony on August 17, 2024, it will be possible," said Minister Basuki in his official statement, Saturday, July 29.

Basuki assessed that the IKN infrastructure development was running according to the implementation schedule, and there were even some progress of development that was faster than planned, such as the construction of the State Palace Building, Presidential Office, and the Arrangement of the National Advertisement.

"This basic infrastructure and government building at KIPP is the capital for the Nusantara IKN Authority to build public trust and attract investors to invest," he said.

He said construction for the construction of BUMN office buildings, Bank Indonesia, hospitals, and hotels would also immediately begin at IKN.

Furthermore, Minister Basuki also reviewed the construction of the Ministerial Tax House with 18.26 percent progress and the Office of the Coordinating Ministry 1 reaching 9.8 percent.

"I ask that this area be started to be greened and planted with shady trees. We have prepared the nurseries at several points with tens of thousands of trees, including for reforestation in toll corridors, such as kepel, sawo, asem Java, banyan, tabebuya and sukun," he said.

In addition, the Ministry of PUPR has also completed a number of supporting infrastructures for the Nusantara IKN area, such as the construction of Intake Infrastructure and the Sepaku River Transmission Pipeline Network, Mentawir Embung, Construction Worker Residential (HPK), and Sepaku Semoi Dam which will soon be completed and dam inundation will be carried out.

"The Sepaku Semoi Dam is currently completely piled up playing dams, immediately inundated to provide raw water at KIPP (Ecore Government Area) IKN," he added.