Karawang Regency Government Allocates IDR 6 Billion For Tambal Sumatra Damaged Roads

Repair or repair of damaged roads. (ANTARA/HO-Kemkab Karawang)

KARAWANG - The Regency Government (Pemkab) of Karawang, West Java, has allocated a budget of around Rp. 6 billion for maintenance or patchage damaged roads in the area. "Currently, we are intensifying emergency activities in handling damaged roads," said Karawang Regional Secretary Acep Jamhuri in Karawang, Antara, Thursday, March 9. He said the emergency activity was like closing potholes that were prone to being the cause of the accident. This year the Karawang Regency Government has allocated a budget of around Rp. 6 billion for these emergency activities, especially for road maintenance, not including road improvements or road repairs in total. "The Rp6 billion budget is for maintenance only. If it is combined with road improvements, the budget is quite large," said Acep Jamhuri. He targets the repair of roads with patchwork activities to be completed by the end of March 2023. Meanwhile, over the past few weeks, traffic accidents due to damaged roads in a number of Karawang areas have often occurred. Accidents experienced by motorbike riders due to potholes include the occurrence of Syekh Quro Highway, Karawang-Cikampek Arterial Road, Tanjungpura-Rengasdengklok Highway, and others. Accidents caused by potholes, he said, have been widely discussed by various groups of people over the past few weeks. This is crowded because the district government reasoned that it did not have a lot of budget, so it had to be patchy in damaged road repair activities. Meanwhile, previously the Karawang Regency Government distributed a grant of around Rp. 10 billion to the West Java Regional Police for the construction of a three-story parking building.