Prabowo Will Transfer Toll Road Construction Projects To Private Airports

The President of the Republic of Indonesia, Prabowo Subianto. (Mery Handayani / VOI)

JAKARTA - President Prabowo Subianto plans to transfer strategic project tenders to private companies. He assessed that private companies have more experience and can also be more efficient.

Initially, Prabowo said he wanted to give a bigger role to private companies in Indonesia. He also denied that he would stop infrastructure development in Indonesia.

"My brothers and sisters want to give the private sector a bigger role. Some say I stopped infrastructure projects, it's not true, I didn't stop it, I changed it," Prabowo said at the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Consolidation Conference, at Ritz-Carlton, Jakarta, Thursday, January 16.

Therefore, Prabowo plans to transfer several key infrastructure projects to private companies. The reason is that the private sector is considered more efficient and has experience.

"I will leave most of the infrastructure to the private sector to build. The private sector is more efficient, the private sector is more innovative, the private sector has more experience, ladies and gentlemen," he said.

For example, said Prabowo, private companies can enter to work on infrastructure projects such as toll roads, ports, and airports. Meanwhile, the government will focus on development that directly touches the people.

"So later on toll roads, ports, airports, I submit, the private sector please move everything," he said.

"I have said many times that later the government will (build) the most important and core ones regarding protection for the people and so on. But what can be done by the private sector should be the private sector developing, the private sector working for everything," he continued.