Wednesday, 05 January, 2011 | 15:30 WIB
TEMPO Interactive,
Jakarta:Indonesia will provide clean water and
energy to Singapore. The city-state is expected to experience a
water shortage by 2015. The clean water supply will be sent from
Batam, Bintan and Karimun (BBK) due to its close location to
Singapore.
“After 2015, Singapore will go through more (water) shortages,”
said Lucky Eko Wuriyanto, Deputy Minister in charge of
Infrastucture and Area Development at the Coordinating Ministry for
the Economy, in Jakarta yesterday. As compensation, Singapore is
ready to develop the BBK area which badly needs infrastructure
development.
Hatta Rajasa, Coordinating Minister for the Economy, said that
infrastructure development is work that must be carried out by both
countries. “But the financing part has not been mentioned yet,”
said Hatta. Even though infrastructure development is still being
discussed, cooperation in other sectors have already been carried
out such as in the area of customs, master list and harbor
development.
