PPD Officially Joins Damri, Deputy Minister Of SOEs: Increase Connectivity And Expand Business Networks

JAKARTA Perum PPD has officially joined Perum Damri. With this merger, Perum Damri officially became the only State-Owned Road-Based Public Company.

The merger of the two SOEs was carried out through the signing of Government Regulation Number 30 of 2023 dated June 6, 2023 concerning the Merger of Perum PPD into Perum Damri by the President of the Republic of Indonesia, Joko Widodo (Jokowi).

The merger plan was initiated by SOE Minister Erick Thohir to strengthen the company's performance so as to strengthen its reach and expand the network in increasing national transportation connectivity.

Deputy Minister of SOEs II Kartika Wirjoatmodjo expressed his appreciation to all parties involved in the merger. This achievement is one of the important and historic milestones for the management of road transportation SOEs.

Furthermore, the man who is familiarly called Tiko said that this merger was an initiative of the Ministry of SOEs as an effort to strengthen accessibility to community mobility and national connectivity which at the same time created added value or value creation and sustainability for state-owned companies.

"This initiative aims to strengthen the reach power and expand business networks so that overlapping due to having the same business focus between the two entities," said Tiko in his remarks at the Commemoration Ceremony of Perum PPD to Perum DAMRI which took place in Jakarta, Monday, June 19.

Tiko hopes that after this merger Perum DAMRI can work more efficiently and productively, both in running its business commercially, as well as in carrying out its function as an extension of the Government in providing community mobility services in 3 TP areas (Disadvantaged, Remote, Outermost and Border). This is of course to maintain the milestone of achieving value creation which has become a post-merging target.

"Perum DAMRI is expected to cooperate and increase multimodal integration with other transportation companies, so that they can become feed system accelerators on other modes of transportation such as buses, trains, high-speed trains, MRT, LRT, and even aircraft," he said.

In addition, continued Tiko, as a national flag carrier in the road-based general transportation industry, Perum Damri is also expected to be able to encourage equal distribution of people's economic growth through quality services that can create multiplier effects throughout Indonesia.

Meanwhile, the President Director of Perum DAMRI Setia N. Milatia Moemin conveyed that by joining Perum PPD into Perum DAMRI, the Government's great goal to be able to improve national connectivity can be realized, especially to support national economic growth and equity.

In addition, to increase and develop the capacity of sustainable road transportation service providers, as well as provide standardized transportation services to increase satisfaction for customers.

The realization of the merger of PPD-DAMRI based on PP Number 30 hopefully can provide great benefits to the economy in the country. As well as providing optimism to the people of Indonesia, that national transportation will continue to grow and in the end can compete in the domestic and global markets," he said.

"We ask for support and cooperation so that DAMRI can realize its vision of becoming a world-class road transportation company that performs superior and sustainable by providing quality services for customers to support national connectivity," said Setia.