Fact Check: Gibran Claims More Projects in Solo Before His Term, Is It True?
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Vice Presidential Candidate (cawapres) number 2, Gibran Rakabuming Raka, stated that Solo received more projects with larger budgets before he took office.
He made this statement during the second 2024 Presidential and Vice Presidential Debate series, themed "People's Economy, Digital Economy, Finance, Investment, Taxes, State Budget/Regional Budget Management, Infrastructure, and Urban Development," held at the Jakarta Convention Center on Friday, December 22, 2023.
Gibran said, "To be fair, Gus, the number of projects or the budget allocated to Solo was larger before I was in Solo."
Gibran's answer was a response to a question from Vice Presidential Candidate number 1, Muhaimin Iskandar. Muhaimin remarked, "Gibran has successfully become a mayor and a successful businessman. Even large projects have been successfully built in Solo. This is an achievement, but we want this achievement to be replicated elsewhere."
Previous Katadata investigations found that the budget for central government projects in Solo during Gibran's tenure was not larger than during the tenure of the previous mayor, FX Hadi Rudyatmo.
The budget for central government projects in Solo increased when Jokowi became president. Before Jokowi's presidency, the project value totaled only Rp 55 billion from 2011-2014. In 2015, the project value reached Rp 87.2 billion.
From 2016-2023, the project value consistently reached hundreds of billions of Rupiah. In 2017, the project value even reached Rp 1.36 trillion.
Katadata used data from the Electronic Procurement Service (LPSE) to record central government projects carried out in Surakarta City from 2011-2023. These projects were primarily undertaken by the Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing (PUPR) and the Ministry of Transportation (Kemenhub), which were responsible for the majority of central government infrastructure projects.
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