Aggregate need due to new infrastructure

The Indonesian government plans to spend US$19.49 billion (IDR 236.6 trillion) on infrastructure development in 2015 – creating huge commercial opportunities for the country’s aggregates suppliers. Only IDR 150.9 trillion of the total planned spend may be allocated through the state budget. However, additional money will come from fuel-subsidy savings. The government is looking at ways to fill the funding gap of IDR 85.7 trillion. The extra IDR 85.7 trillion will be used for building 258.9km of roads,

November 28, 2014 Read time: 1 min

Only IDR 150.9 trillion of the total planned spend may be allocated through the state budget. However, additional money will come from fuel-subsidy savings. The government is looking at ways to fill the funding gap of IDR 85.7 trillion.

The extra IDR 85.7 trillion will be used for building 258.9km of roads, 101km of railways, 5,000 housing units, drinking water treatment systems, 44 twin blocks of low-cost apartments and nine dams.

Buoyant Indonesian infrastructure investment fuels greater aggregates demand

Southeast Asia’s largest economy, Indonesia, offers exciting commercial opportunities for international and regional building material suppliers and quarrying equipment manufacturers. Guy Woodford reports

After his May 2019 re-election as president of Indonesia, Joko Widodo has been keen to continue delivering on his commitment to green-lighting well over US$400 billion-worth of new public works projects.

As a World Bank report in April this year notes, the diverse archipelago nation of more than 17,0