Jakarta Globe, Mar 24, 2015
Development Planning Minister Andrinof Chaniago, left, wants to develop new urban areas across Indonesia to deal with poverty and unemployment. (Antara Foto/Vitalis Yogi Trisna) |
Jakarta.
The government intends to build ten new cities in remote parts of Indonesia,
Andrinof Chaniago, head of the National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas),
announced on Tuesday.
The first
new city will be Tanjung Selor in North Kalimantan, the new province founded in
2012 on land that used to be part of East Kalimantan province. Tanjung Selor is
the capital of North Kalimantan, but currently only has 42,000 inhabitants. The
administration of President Joko Widodo now wants to turn the town into a true
city.
“We will
start the [development of] ten cities during the term of this administration,”
Andrinof said on Tuesday, as quoted by state-owned news agency Antara.
The
Bappenas head explained that the purpose of
developing new urban areas throughout Indonesia was to boost equitable
economic growth in the regions outside Java to decrease poverty and
unemployment.
Andrinof
declined to provide additional details about the plan.
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