Indonesia’s rapid infrastructure drive in the lead up to hosting the 2018 Asian Games in August has resulted in five fatalities and dozens of injuries in elevated transportation projects.
President Joko Widodo has halted work after an accident on an elevated toll road in Jakarta last month which followed the balcony collapse at the Jakarta Stock Exchange which heightened concerns around poor construction standards.
President Jokowi is pushing infrastructure development as key to his 2019 re-election campaign seeing it as essential to reaching 7% annual growth in the country.