This Answer Minister of Industry In response to Complaint of Industrial Estate Association

INDUSTRY.co.id - Surabaya - The Association of Industrial Zones (HKI) Indonesia continues to accelerate the development of industrial estates. However, HKI steps to accelerate the development of industrial estates encountered several obstacles.

In the IPCC XVIII Congress held at JW Marriott Hotel, Surabaya on Monday (31/7/2017), Chairman of the Indonesian Industrial Zone Association (SIA), Sanny Iskandar conveyed several complaints related to the constraints of industrial estate development, such as the procurement of infrastructure or energy network Electricity and gas, transportation support, and support of raw water supply for industry.

In response, Minister of Industry Airlangga Hartarto revealed, the government will support the industrial area to build infrastructure, especially that included in the National Strategic project.

"In relation to infrastructure, of course if the area is included in the national strategic project then the infrastructure will be built by the government whether it is the road whether it is a port, the government also happens to build a community or polytechnic academy," said Airlangga Hartarto in Surabaya.

He added that the government will also see some pilots related to the electricity and gas infrastructure in the industrial area.

"In terms of electricity and gas infrastructure, the government will selectively look at the example in the industrial area of ​​Makassar will find its options because it is close to the source, so we ask the region to see what kind of FSRU form," he continued.

Then, Airlangga continued, for the outside of Java, there is a problem for better masterplan development, not just based on one or two commodities.

"Especially when this commodity price drops, so some areas of growth are rather slow, well this is asked to reopen," he said.

Regarding this year's targets will be fulfilled all, he asserted, the target stage there are stages, for example industrial area in eastern Java is ready in new areas.

"If outside Java some are ready as in central sulawesi and southeast sulawesi, west kalimantan, north sumatera, Sei Mangkei and Kuala cape, that some are ready, others would be pushed so that its better," he concluded.