Ministry Of PUPR: Cash Work Intensive Program In Roads And Bridges Is Targeted To Absorb 80 Thousand Workers

Illustration. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing (PUPR) is targeting the absorption of 80 thousand workers through a cash-intensive program (PKT) in the fields of roads and bridges.

"In the 2023 FY plan, the PKT orogram of the Directorate General of Highways is IDR 4.78 trillion with a projected employment of 80,000 people consisting of routine roads, bridge routines, and drainage revitalization," said Director General of Highways of the Ministry of PUPR Hedy Rahadian in his statement in Jakarta, quoted from Antara, Thursday, February 9.

Hedy said that in FY 2022 the Directorate General (Ditjen) of Bina Marga received an allocation of IDR 4.06 trillion for the PKT program.

"In FY 2022, the PKT program is planned to absorb 59,766 workers. With the realization of employment as many as 73,605 people," he said.

For PKT routinely maintenance roads and bridges such as road median cleaning and painting markings. Meanwhile, for PKT drainage revitalization, it is important to do to improve the quality of national road services.

In addition to routine PKT programs for roads and bridges as well as drainage revitalization, in FY 2022 the Directorate General of Highways will also carry out a solid non-routine work or contractual activity carried out with a labor-intensive scheme in order to open the widest possible employment opportunities to various regions in Indonesia.

The distribution of PKT implementation in the 2022 FY is located at 10 centers on the island of Sumatra, five halls on the island of Kalimantan, four halls on the islands of Java and Bali, six halls on the island of Sulawesi, two halls in the Nusa Tenggara Islands, two halls in the Maluku Islands and four halls on the island of Papua.

The Ministry of PUPR continues its populist infrastructure program carried out under a cash-intensive scheme (PKT/cash for work).

Through the Directorate General of Highways, the Ministry of PUPR implements PKT in the fields of roads and bridges. The work is carried out by all National Road Implementation Centers (BBPJN)/National Road Implementation Centers (BPJN) which include routine road work, bridge routines and drainage revitalization throughout Indonesia.

The PKT program of the Ministry of PUPR is carried out through infrastructure development that involves local communities/citizens as development actors, especially small-scale infrastructure or simple jobs that do not require technology.

In addition to accelerating economic recovery and increasing people's purchasing power, PKT also aims to distribute funds to remote villages.