Ministry to supervise Borobudur tourism area development

Jakarta Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning Minister Hadi Tjahjanto said that he is supervising the progress of Borobudur Super Priority Tourism Destination development in terms of agrarian and spatial planning aspects.”We are responsible for the agrarian affairs and spatial planning matters. In regards to those plots, there are state’s assets, so we need collaboration, we pursue coordination, so all issues related to the assets can be managed for (the good of) tourism,” the minister said according to statement received here on Sunday.

Further collaboration with regional government is neededto resolve tourism matters, he said.

He added that the ministry and regional government have to collaborate with each other to outline the spatial planning, particularly for the tourism area. One of the aspects covered in the structural planning was on power or electricity network, he said.

“What we are working on right now is all the cables, which we will be put underground as per the spatial planning, and we will coordinate with regional government for the spatial planning, so it will not look messy,” Minister Tjahjanto said.

Source: Antara News Agency