Bey Machmudin Asks West Java Regional Secretary To Focus On Accelerating Infrastructure To Eradicating Extortion

Acting Governor of West Java Bey Winhi Machmudin inaugurated Acting Regional Secretary of West Java Province Muhammad Taufiq Budi Santoso at Gedung Sate Bandung, Tuesday (3/10/2023). (ANTARA/Ricky Prayoga)

BANDUNG - Acting Governor of West Java Beyvi Machmudin asked West Java Acting Secretary Muhammad Taufiq Budi Santoso, who had just been inaugurated, to focus on accelerating infrastructure, especially transportation to resolving extortion, especially in education.

"Initially from Bappeda, I saw that the Regional Secretary had a minimum of three months, I think there was a crucial acceleration and it had to be done like infrastructure and others," Bey said after the inauguration at the Sate Bandung building, reported by ANTARA, Tuesday, October 3.

Bey explained, for the acceleration of transportation infrastructure, the main train (Light Rail Transit / LRT) Bandung Raya North-South Trase (Babakan Siliwangi - Leuwi Panjang) which is planned to be integrated with the existing train line for the West-East (Leuwi Panjang - Tegalluar) route.

"Because why isn't it used too much for KRD (local trains) by the community, because the time interval is still far away, which we want in half an hour or like the Jabodetabek KRL," he said.

The next focus is to accelerate the resolution of waste problems with the construction of TPPAS, namely Legok Nangka, Bandung Regency (Bandung Raya), Lulut Nambo, Bogor Regency (Bogor Raya) and Ciwaringin, Cirebon Regency (Cirebon Raya) which are targeted to be built on a large scale in Semester I in 2024, and after two years.

The third focus is to boost economic potential around Kertajati West Java International Airport (BIJB), where flights from Husein Sastranegara Airport, Bandung City, apart from propeller planes, have begun to be diverted, which is considered a momentum to increase economic growth there.

Moreover, it is currently supported by the presence of the Cisumdawu Toll Road as an acceleration facility for reducing the distance to BIJB in an effort to develop the Cirebon, Indramayu, Majalengka, Kuningan (Ciayumajakuning) areas.

"Kertajati is also big homework because we have to move, coordinate regencies/cities there. Cirebon, Indramayu, Majalengka must also be prepared because we see there that there are cities that can develop even better. Cirebon for example. That can attract markets from Jakarta, Central Java. Moreover, they have Kertajati," he said.

In addition, another focus is accelerating the resolution of illegal levies (extortion) problems, especially in the world of education and parking.

"For Pngli, we still hear levies, whether or whatever under the guise of fees. We should have applied 12 years of compulsory learning, State High School, State Vocational School, it was free of levies," he said.

Meanwhile, for illegal parking fees, which were later busy with the matter of paying for motorbike parking up to Rp. 10,000 across from the KAA Museum, even the city of development was dubbed the city of extortion (illegal levies), Bey asked for a completion immediately, especially when informed that the land belonged to the government.

"I don't want it to be like that anymore. If there is just closed. We will coordinate with the Regional Police or need to be with the TNI, the point is that there should be no more like that," said Bey.