JAKARTA: The Transportation Ministry is completing 15 port constructions throughout East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) province to support the inter-island connection in NTT and create easier accesses for trading.
Head of Bureau and Public Information for Transportation Ministry J.A. Barata said the presence of these 15 ports could move and improve the local economic society as well as to press down interregional price disparity.
“With the completion of these 15 ports in NTT, the central and local government can develop sea transportation for passenger and freight transport,” Barata said in a press conference on Monday, March 21, 2016. The ports will be named Kandidi Reo, Potta, Atapupu, Larantuka, Papele, Lamakera, Waiwerang, Terong, Komodo, Wuring, Palue, Ba’a, Naikliu, Maurole, and Kolbano port.
The developments of these ports are one of Ignasius Jonan’s commitments to engineer connectivity throughout Indonesia as expected by the President. Not only in NTT, the Transportation Ministry has also completed the development of Baubau Port located in Bau-bau City, Southeast Sulawesi during 2008-2015, with a total investment of Rp268 billion which was derived from the ministry’s budget.
