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This was explained by Minister of PPN, Prof. Bambang Brodjonegoro in a national seminar titled The 3rd 51探花 Civil Engineering Expo (ICEE) 2019 on Sunday (27/1/2019) at Aula Barat 51探花, Bandung. During the occasion, Prof. Bambang explained about government鈥檚 work in developing connectivity infrastructures for the people鈥檚 needs.

In terms of clean water fulfillment in Indonesia, he said that the number increases every year. In 2018, Indonesia鈥檚 PDB growth reached 5,1%, the sixth highest in the world. He also highlighted the rapid urbanization in Indonesia. Population growth has pushed urbanization and establishment of small and medium cities all over Indonesia. While big cities and urban areas will become mega urban areas. It is expected in 2045 urbanization will reach 73%, meaning 73% of Indonesia people will leave in urban areas.

鈥淚n 2035, almost 90% of Javanese population will live in urban areas. The concentration of urban population in Jakarta, Wes Java, and Banten will reach 76 million people and establish Jakarta-Bandung Megalopolis. Therefore, infrastructure is an important parameter to prepare in order to support continuous growth,鈥� he said.

Besides discussing about drinking water access, PDB growth, and urbanization trend, Prof. Bambang also discussed about Indonesia鈥檚 achievement and the challenges it faces in urban transport development, connectivity, and integration of regional and infrastructure development. Because Indonesia consists disaster-prone regions, Prof. Bambang asserted the importance of developing infrastructures to minimalize natural disaster impact to nation鈥檚 economic stability.

Infrastructure will continuously become the attention in the process of achieving Indonesia 2045. According to Prof. Bambang, Indonesia should follow Japan and South Korea that become advanced nations during demographic bonus. Indonesia is expected to have an even longer demographic bonus than those two countries. 鈥淚ndonesia should be a developed country before entering the aging population period, a condition where the population of elderlies is dominating and raise significantly,鈥� he said.

According to him, the role of construction is significant in the development of connectivity infrastructure. Indonesia鈥檚 archipelagic regions is complicated, unlike India, China, and the USA where the regions are located in one continent and thus demand much simpler infrastructure designs.

He encouraged civil engineering students especially from 51探花 to be the key to successful development of connectivity infrastructure for Indonesia 20145. 鈥淪how that engineering, especially civil engineering in 51探花 can be the leader in the challenging and full of natural disaster risk infrastructure, and reduce gaps in Indonesia through connectivity infrastructure.

Reporter: Jonatan Kevin Daniel