Kertajati Airport Plays Improve Manufacturing Industry Jabar
By : Herry Barus And Aldi Firhand. A | Saturday, November 11 2017 - 23:07 IWST
Menhub Optimistic Kertajati Airport Majalengka Operation 2018 (Foto Ist)
INDUSTRY.co.id - Bandung - Corporate Secretary of PT West Java International Airport (PT BIJB) Wasfan W Widodo said the presence of BIJB located in Kertajati area, Majalengka Regency is predicted to overcome the economic balance in West Java, especially the northern region.
"In fact, the existence of BIJB is a balancer of economic growth there.It is expected that economic growth in the northern region will rise.If the west is faster developing because it is adjacent to the capital, it has become a logical consequence," said Wasfan in a press release of the Public Relations Bureau and Protocol Secretariat Java West, Saturday (11/11/2017)
He said economic growth in West Java, especially in Majalengka regency, will grow rapidly in the future.
This, he said, can not be separated from the presence of Kertajati Airport which will become the pride of West Java residents who will be inaugurated in 2018.
Wasfan said the airport with all access to its supporters should be captured by the surrounding community to improve the economy in the northern region of West Java.
Just to be known, the area of Aerocity, the Cipali Toll and which will soon operate Cisumdawu Toll, as well as mass transportation infrastructure such as integrated rail confirms that the economic equity has begun to move there.
Absorption of manpower by BIJB in large numbers will occur where 150 thousand to 400 thousand will be sucked and as compensation of the surrounding people will also be felt.
"People should be caught by the opportunity of BIJB, because the change should not be a threat but a chance to be presented," continued Wasfan.
He expects, the local government to be able to inventory the potentials that will grow in the region there. Majalengka with all the potential that is owned, for example from the tourism sector can be created by its own community so that in the future there citizens do not become 'foreign in their own home'.
According to him, as the airport is predicted to suck up 2.7 million people in the first year of operation, human mobility will occur as a transit place.
"There should be a process of shifting the mindset, it can be done to make the presence of airport utilization, if the smallest way to make a shop, rent, hotel is very positive," he said.
Meanwhile, Economic Observer Pasundan University (Unpas) Bandung Acuviarta Kartabi continue, the imbalance of economic growth for the north and west will be overcome by the presence of BIJB.
The reason so far economic growth in Majalengka tend to be slow where HDI only move around 64,55.
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