Balikpapan - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) said that the Master Plan for the Acceleration and Expansion of Indonesian Economic Development (MP3EI) from 2011 to 2025 requires a budget to reach 4.700 trillion IDR. "The fund would be so large that it can not possibly be met by state and local budgets, so that there should be the role of state-owned enterprises and private enterprises as well," Yudhoyono said in a speech while inaugurating the 10 projects of East Kalimantan MP3EI, at Balikpapan on Monday.
4.700 trillion IDR funds reach the 40 percent are funds of employers or private party preferred from domestic investors, then investors from abroad. Then 25 percent of the SOEs and local enterprises, 15 percent of the state budget, and the remaining 20 percent is a joint venture of the government and the private sector. "This is the blueprint for the development of Indonesia. Blueprint is to be understood by all the people of Indonesia. I also have met Mr. Joko Widodo, our elected president, to know and to continue this blueprint," he said.
In building the nation, there must be a balance between infrastructure development and efforts to reduce poverty, including improving education in order to increase human resources in Indonesia. If the budget is too much to fund infrastructure development he said, the development of education and poverty reduction efforts is hampered. It is certainly not healthy. That is why the role of the state budget MP3EI reduced to 15 percent.
"In regard to this MP3EI, I see the East Kalimantan province continues to move forward towards a better future, including continuing to build transportation infrastructure," said the president who had stopped his speech a few minutes by the sound of Dhuhr Adhan. In a speech made at the arrival terminal building of Sultan Aji Muhammad Sulaiman Sepinggan International Airport, this Balikpapan, and Yudhoyono said that a great concept to build Indonesia forward is through long-term development plan.
To support the long-term program, building also coupled with the development of medium-term and the development performed each year starting from the central, provincial, to district level as well as the city. While 10 projects MP3EI in East Kalimantan region was inaugurated by president are the new airport terminal Sepinggan Samsul, the three airports in the border region with Malaysia, namely Long Apung Airport, Long Bawan, and Datah Dawai. Then the Embalut power plant and the Peaking power plant Kutai Kartanegara, Senipah power plant in Balikpapan, Sisi-Nubi oil-gas wells and the Ruby field oil-gas wells offshore East Kalimantan, as well as VIP building at the Sepinggan Balikpapan airport. [Diani Sekaring Sejati / Source: Antara News]
