Japanese Ambassador to Indonesia Masafumi Ishii and Director General of Asia-Pacific and African Affairs of the Indonesian Foreign Ministry Desra Percaya signed an exchange of notes (E/N) on the grants and loans here on Friday.
Under the exchange of notes, Japan will carry out a technical cooperation project to formulate a reconstruction design, prepare a program to implement the reconstruction design and realize the program.
The grant is also part of the efforts to provide reconstruction assistance, the Japanese Embassy said in a written statement.
With the assistance, the rehabilitation and reconstruction of disaster-hit areas could hopefully be realized soon to contribute to the creation of a sturdy community in the event of a natural disaster.
The grants will be used to build Palu 4 Bridge in Central Sulawesi province, which will cost 2.5 billion yen. The grants will also be used to build roads affected by a powerful earthquake and tsunami in Central Sulawesi in September last year.
The project will hopefully benefit the local people so that it can contribute to the creation of a sturdy community in case of natural disasters.
The project in the form of heavy-duty equipment assistance worth 600 million yen will be directed toward reconstructing disaster-hit areas in Central Sulawesi.
The third project that Japan will assist in is strengthening the information system of natural disaster mitigation worth 1.989 yen.
Translator: Yashinta Difa Pramudyani, Suha
Editor: Bambang Purwanto
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