BANDUNG - The Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing has purchased 20 Pindad Excava 200 excavators manufactured by PT Pindad (Persero). The contract is worth Rp 28.056 billion.
The excavators will be given as grants to regional Public Works and Public Housing Offices with notable achievements to build infrastructure in order to achieve economic equality and for disaster mitigation.
According to Bowo Sudiatmanto, Head of Planning and Programming at the ministry’s Directorate of Bridges, the contract is the second between the ministry and Pindad after another one in 2018.
“God willing, next year the ministry will make another purchase from Pindad per the Minister’s direction to use locally-produced heavy equipment,” Mr Sudiatmanto said in an official statement on the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises’ website, Saturday (24/10). (MS)