Budi Arie Reveals His Achievements While Serving As Minister Of Communication And Information

Minister of Communication and Information Budi Arie Setiadi (photo: Dinda Buana/VOI)

Towards the end of Budi Arie Setiadi's term as Minister of Communication and Information, Budi conveyed several achievements during his one year in office.

The first achievement that was successfully carried out was the 4G Base Transceiver Station (BTS) construction project, which had stalled due to a corruption case involving former Minister of Communication and Information Johnny G. Plate.

"So the BTS project does not stall. But it can build almost 6 thousand BTS out of the total planned," Budi told the media on Tuesday, October 1 at the Kominfo office, Jakarta.

In addition, Budi also said that under his leadership, Kominfo managed to have a significant impact on the distribution of online gambling in Indonesia.

Based on PPATK data in July 2024, the steps taken by Kominfo succeeded in reducing the number of access to online gambling sites by 50 percent, and a decrease in the number of public deposits on online gambling sites by Rp34.49 trillion.

"Thirdly, there is an HBS satellite program worth IDR 3.4 trillion which we have returned the money to the state," Budi continued.

In addition, Budi also claimed to have succeeded in realizing the 2024 General Election (Pemilu) of Peace. According to him, this year's election is a little more conducive than before.

"And we can compare the 2024 election much cooler than the 2019 and 2014 elections," he concluded.

Nevertheless, he said there was still homework (PR) that still needed to be completed before the change of Jokowi's administration to President Prabowo Subianto on October 20.

The PR is harmonization of regulations, especially regarding PDP and also regarding the revision of PP 71 regarding investment attraction, especially in the ITE sector.

"Direvised to make it more attractive, because we are competing with other countries. With Johor in Malaysia. We must make a more interesting policy," he said.