Jababeka Boss Called Tourism Can Maintain Development of 100 Independent Cities

INDUSTRY.co.id - Jakarta - Setyono Djuandi Darmono, Founder and Chairman of Jababeka Group asserted that the potential of Tourism can help create an industrial area outside of Java is strong, employment and advanced education.

This is because in building industrial areas outside Java is still a lot of challenges because the infrastructure is not yet complete. While speaking the industry is related to speed.

"Jababeka is asked to build 100 areas throughout Indonesia, to build the industrial area must be complete infrastructure, whether physical or human," said Darmono, during a press conference related to investment opportunities in the field of tourism to support the building program of 100 cities into smart city in President Lounge, Batavia Tower , Jakarta, Wednesday (6/6).

He recounts the difficulty of building industrial estates in Papua and Kalimantan because of infrastructure factors that will slow down the production process.

"Because the industry will have to be ontime, the goods will have to be fast, so it can be processed immediately and sent immediately If the logistics structure is not complete like the airport does not exist, how to overcome the accuracy of raw materials? , Makassar etc. it is small, "he said.

Whereas Darmono said that with the existence of 100 industrial areas can build a strong economy. Because there is a large labor absorption potential and brings huge investment as well.

"This is unlikely to happen if the infrastructure is not ready, the toll road, electricity, water, telecommunications, gas, fiber optics and human resources are not ready yet, so to get to the industrial area, starting from tourism," he cried.

Darmono convinced with the development of Tourism, the human and physical infrastructure will be formed. Furthermore, it will support the industrial development process.

"We have enormous tourism potential with many ethnic, culinary languages ​​etc. It's all different, it's incredible potential, we have the sea so wide, the second longest, the beach we have tremendous potential, we can build a lot of hotels. in the field of tourism, "he concluded