Optimize Infrastructure Reforestation, Ministry Of PUPR Plants 235,780 Trees During April 2022-May 2023

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing (PUPR) said, based on data from the Quality Plant Information System (Sitamu) during the April 2022-May 2023 period, 255,780 trees have realized planting in the PUPR infrastructure consisting of 147 types of plants.

This is done as an effort to reforestation around the infrastructure location that has been built by the Directorate General (Ditjen) of Highways, the Directorate General of Water Resources (SDA), the Directorate General of Human Settlements, and the Directorate General of Housing.

PUPR Minister Basuki Hadimuljono said that the infrastructure development of the Ministry of PUPR must always be based on the principles of sustainable development that are environmentally friendly based on the biodiversity of the archipelago.

"Pagar planting also improves the quality of infrastructure, not only as a physical object, but can become a tourist spot and socio-economic development center for people who are environmentally friendly and sustainable," Minister Basuki said in his official statement, Thursday, July 6.

The PUPR Ministry itself actively greens trees every year by planting trees in various infrastructure projects in the PUPR sector.

The highest progress of planting trees for the April 2022-May 2023 period is in the Water Resources infrastructure of 168,450 trees.

Seeds of selected plants are local characteristics/potential in each region, such as Pete, jengkol, mango and durian with a minimum height of 1.5-2 meters so that they can grow optimally.

Planting this tree utilizes greenbelt green belt areas (greenbelt) of water resources infrastructure, such as dams, dams, rivers, and reservoirs.

This activity is part of conservation efforts as well as the development of local economic potential around the PUPR infrastructure without disturbing the main function of the infrastructure as water storage, for example, the Bendo Dam greenbelt in Ponorogo Regency is 6,050 trees.

Furthermore, there are 51,050 embedded road and bridge infrastructure scattered on toll roads and arterial roads (national roads) throughout Indonesia.

A total of 7,325 trees on the Trans Java Toll Road for the Solo-Ngawi Toll Road, as many as 350 trees on the national road for the Mawar-Congot Boundary of Central Java-DI Yogyakarta Province and 446 KIT Batang access trees.

Planting trees on toll roads and arterial roads in addition to aiming to beautify the environment and landscape of the region, also aims to increase the area and quality of green open space as an ecological essential function that can be enjoyed by the community.

For the Directorate General of Human Settlements itself, it has planted 12,498 trees spread across residential infrastructure locations, such as waste Final Management Sites (TPA), Tinja Mud Processing Installations (IPLT), Drinking Water Supply Systems (SPAM), campus building construction, markets, schools, and others.

One of the tree planting was carried out at the Bangka Regency IPLT as many as 600 trees. Then, also housing infrastructure such as flats, special houses, and subsidized housing areas as many as 3,782 trees.