Anies Promises To Boost Development In Southwest Papua, Sorong Enters 40 Citys Equivalent To Jakarta

Vice Presidential Candidate number I Anies Baswedan orated in front of supporters during a political safari in Southwest Papua, Tuesday (16/1/2024) (ANTARA/Yuvensius Lasa Banafanu)

SORONG - Presidential Candidate Anies Baswedan promises progress for Southwest Papua if they win the 2024 presidential election. This progress is not only an aspect of development, but an economy to jobs

In front of his supporters at Aston, Sorong City, Anies said the farmers worked extraordinarily hard but could not save, because the cost was higher than their income.

"This is a problem that has been going on for a long time. This is not a complicated problem but this is a problem that has been ignored so far," said Anies as quoted by ANTARA, Tuesday, January 16.

The issue of rice and farmers, he said, is not a complicated and difficult problem, but a policy of taking sides with the community through actions of change.

"We have to make changes so that household costs are less, education costs are cheaper, health costs are cheaper, all of which require changes," he explained.

Sorong City, he said, would be one of 40 cities that will get an increase in development in the future, aka the city equivalent to Jakarta.

"Sorong is one of 40 cities, why 40 cities, because we want Indonesia to progress together, if we only build one city and then the other how," said Cawapres Anies.

The 40 cities were built together so that hundreds of regencies and cities around them also felt progress.

"The development series, we plan to make Sorong a maritime city in Indonesia," he said.

This means, he said, Sorong City becomes a center for agricultural and fishery services. So facilities such as ports will be revitalized, farmers and fishermen are given business capital, have solar access, get fertilizer easily, so that agricultural and fishery activities progress.

"If this happens, the impact will not only be Sorong but throughout Southwest Papua will progress," he explained.