Agenda kelautan dan kemaritiman Indonesia sepertinya diseriusi oleh Presiden Jokowi, Gan. Beliau merencanakan gelontoran dana sekitar 7,5 US dollar (70 triliun) untuk memperbaiki bandar-bandar dan pelabuhan di Nusantara. Rencananya, Indonesia akan melakukan ekspansi 5 pelabuhan besar, untuk mengurangi ongkos transportasi laut. Bagaimana pendapat agan? Silahkan simak dulu beritanya :)
Jokowi Sets Maritime Ambition with S$7.5b Port Plans
JAKARTA — Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo is targeting almost 70 trillion rupiah (S$7.5 billion) in projects to expand ports across the world’s biggest archipelago, where investors are deterred by logistics costs that amount to a quarter of the economy.
Mr Widodo plans to expand five ports on the nation’s main islands, seeking to reduce shipping delays and boost trade in a country that would stretch from New York to London, Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs Indroyono Soesilo said in an interview this week. The government will also cut red tape that keeps yachts and cruise liners away, he said.
Improving maritime and transport infrastructure is one of Mr Widodo’s main strategies to reinvigorate Southeast Asia’s No 1 economy, which is growing at the slowest pace since the global financial crisis. At his inauguration last month, Mr Widodo likened himself to a “captain trusted by the people” and said it was time for Indonesia to return to “Jalesveva Jayamahe,” the naval motto meaning “in the seas we will triumph”.
“We would like to provide good logistics access from Sabang to Merauke,” Mr Soesilo said in an interview with Bloomberg TV Indonesia on Tuesday, referring to the country’s westernmost and easternmost cities.
The 70 trillion rupiah will go to expanding five major ports in north Sumatra, Jakarta, east Java, south Sulawesi and Papua to serve large vessels and build feeder lines for smaller ports, said Mr Soesilo, without giving a time frame to complete the projects.
The Maritime Coordinating Minister is a new role created by Mr Widodo and Mr Soesilo still lacks his own office building. He oversees the ministries of Transport, Tourism, Energy and Fisheries.
Mr Widodo has met investors from China, Africa and the United States who want him to build ports, the minister said.
China is planning a US$16.3 billion (S$21.1 billion) fund to finance infrastructure linking its markets to three continents as Chinese President Xi Jinping pushes forward with his plans to revive the centuries-old Silk Road trading route, said officials who participated in drafting the plan.
To fund his infrastructure ambitions, Mr Widodo has identified ways to boost government revenue, including improving tax collection and reducing the country’s budget-constraining fuel subsidies.
“Ports and sea transportation will become key for economic growth,” Mr Widodo said during an interview in September at Jakarta’s Tanjung Priok port, which handles two-thirds of the country’s trade and is one of the five targeted for expansion. “First of all, we’ll be able to push our goods for export. And then, of course, that will be supported by industrial areas.”
Foreign investors have poured almost US$4 billion into Indonesian stocks this year as they expect Mr Widodo to replicate his success as the capital’s Governor in cutting red tape and kick-starting transport infrastructure projects.
Indonesia plans to build as many as 30 dams starting next year and the country needs to start constructing mass transport systems, the Cabinet Secretary’s office said in a Twitter post yesterday, citing the President.
The high cost of transporting shrimp from eastern Indonesia to processing centres on Java island makes them too expensive to export, while it is cheaper to import oranges from China than ship them from Borneo to Java, said the World Bank.
Its Logistics Performance Index ranked Indonesia 53rd of 160 countries this year, down from 43rd in 2007 and behind Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam. Logistics costs equate to about 24 per cent of Indonesia’s gross domestic product, an enormous tax on the economy.
Indonesia, looking for fund inflows as it struggles to narrow a persistent gap in its current account, plans to waive visas for more countries and expedite the entry process for boats visiting islands such as Bali, Komodo and Borneo.
The country lags its neighbours in attracting foreign tourists due to its lack of infrastructure and the difficulty in obtaining permits. The government intends to shorten the permit process for foreign cruise ships to one day from about three weeks, Mr Soesilo said.
“We want to invite cruise ships, tourist ships, yachts to easily cruise in Indonesia,” he said. Bloomberg
Sumber : http://www.todayonline.com/world/asia/jokowi-sets-maritime-ambition-s75b-port-plans?singlepage=true
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