Jakarta. Anies Baswedan, who won the 2017 Jakarta gubernatorial election by marketing versus seaside recovery, insisted on Sunday the landfill job at the Ancol beach resort would continue to reclaim at least 155 hectares of new land from the Jakarta Bay.
The guv said the recovery project aims to make Ancol the biggest and the very best tourist destination in Asia.
In a video message aired on the city’s YouTube Channel, Anies claimed the job would utilize excavated soils and mud from 13 rivers and 30 dams as infill.
” Where do the excavated soils go? We send them to Ancol.
He declared that the Ancol task was various from the improvement job to construct 17 islands off Jakarta’s northern coast, which he opposed throughout the election.
The island projects, started by private financiers who wanted to develop new commercial locations in the nation’s greatest city, have actually overlooked environmental preservation and maritime biodiversity, he said.
According to Anies, the brand-new islands disturbed the stream of major rivers, further exposing the city to flood disaster. He stated he had actually revoked recovery authorization for 13 islands, while the other 4 need to continue since they were currently near completion when he took office.
” The 17 islands protest the general public interests and they are facing legal concerns. The Ancol project has actually been initiated by the government to secure Jakarta homeowners from floods,” he stated.
Anies said he had approved 155 hectares of brand-new improvement land for Ancol. Over the last 11 years, river and dam excavation has actually produced soils for around 20 hectares of new land in East Ancol.
” Excavation works will continue in our rivers and dams, while we likewise plan to excavate land for the MRT tunnel,” Anies said, describing the city’s mass fast transit job that will be expanded to the northern part of the capital city.
” We require an area of at least 155 hectares to accommodate excavated soils.”
The Prophet
Anies said a museum devoted for Prophet Mohammed will be developed on the improvement land, inhabiting an area of 3 hectares.
” The museum about the history of the prophet will be built on the shoreline, part of Ancol. This is going to be the most significant museum for the prophet outside Saudi Arabia,” Anies stated.
Ancol received 20 million visitors every year and its economic contribution to Jakarta has been significant, he said.
” This area is developed to become a center for tourism activities, not simply for Indonesia, but also for Southeast Asia or even Asia,” Anies said.
