Optimistic That 3 Of Its Regencies Are No Longer Left Behind, The Central Sulawesi Provincial Government Calls 3 Categories Fulfilled

Vehicles crossing the Flyover Bridge in Pantoloan Village, North Palu District, Palu City, Central Sulawesi (Central Sulawesi), Sunday 5 September 2021. (ANTARA-HO-Muhammad Izfaldi)

SULTENG - The Provincial Government (Pemrov) of Central Sulawesi (Sulteng) is optimistic that 3 districts in its area will be separated from the category of disadvantaged regions in 2023.

Expert Staff to the Governor of Central Sulawesi Ridha Saleh said the three districts in question, namely Donggala, Sigi and Tojo Una-una. "According to the Director General of Disadvantaged Regional Development Acceleration (PPDT) of the Ministry of Villages, Development of Disadvantaged Regions, and Transmigration (Kemendes PDTT) RI Rafdinal, based on the results of the latest measurements on 62 underdeveloped districts, three regencies in Central Sulawesi have been upgraded in status," he said in a written statement, Tuesday, September 12, which was confiscated by Antara. He revealed that the statement by the Ministry of Village of PPDT RI officials was made while attending a meeting at the Secretariat of the Ministry of PPDT representing the governor when discussing the declaration of three districts in the province left-handed region, Monday, September 11. According to the Ministry of PPDT, three sectors affecting regions in Central Sulawesi can be separated from the gap, namely distributed social assistance is evenly distributed, economic growth is getting stronger and environmental management is getting better. "Three sectors are among the indicators of the assessment of the Ministry of PDTT RI. On average, the value of the composite index in three districts in Central Sulawesi experienced a very significant increase, especially in economic, social and environmental aspects according to the assessment of the Central Government," said Ridha.

According to government data, he said, Central Sulawesi's economy in the second quarter of 2023 grew high at the level of 11.86 percent, or higher than national economic growth in the same period, namely 5.17 percent. In that meeting, the Central Sulawesi Provincial Government conveyed the idea of declaration by presenting 15 governors including 62 regents throughout Indonesia and received the approval of Mendes-PDTT Abdul Halim Iskandar. "We need to complete the declaration plan, so that the implementation is well scheduled. We have also conveyed this idea to the Head of the Vice Presidential Secretariat (Wapres), and it is scheduled by the Director General of the PPDT Ministry of Health this afternoon to hold a coordination meeting with the Head of the Vice Presidential Secretariat to discuss the declaration of exiting the status of the lagging area," he said.