Indonesia still import Ashpalt

JAKARTA - Most of the asphalt demand for infrastructure construction in Indonesia still have to be imported so that it takes a variety of efforts to increase bitumen production from domestic locations ."The need for asphalt last five years approximately 1.2 million tons per year and will increase in the future , " said Deputy Public Works Minister Herman Dardak in a written statement received in Jakarta , Saturday ( 2/11 ) .According to Herman , given tarmac domestic production is only about 400 thousand tons per year , the Indonesia needs to import the rest from abroad . To that end , he said , the government supports a number of efforts in making asphalt more easily available , economical , with better quality .This, he added , supported by the development of technologies to achieve sustainability in the construction of roads in Indonesia. He also said , several issues related to asphalt contained in Indonesia is a quality problem and the resulting scarcity of asphalt road project completion delays , and price is uncertain .Previously , employers asphalt asked the government to make adjustments to the contract price of asphalt current , multi-year contract and either a single year . Penyesuaikan to the contract price due to rising prices of construction materials , following the strengthening of the dollar against the rupiah since the last two months , said the Chairman of the Association of Asphalt Concrete Organisation DPP Indonesia ( AABI ) , Hartono , in Padang , yesterday .

As a result of the strengthening of the dollar , causing an average loss we reach about 18 percent to 21 percent , due to all the construction materials rose , " Though many entrepreneurs suffer losses due to working with asphalt spending more costly than expected , " said Hartono .As reported, the National Construction Services Development Institute ( LPJKN ) requested support from the government ease the impact of the weakening of the rupiah against the U.S. dollar that occurred lately .