President Jokowi Leads Groundbreaking Ceremony of Al-Azhar Summarecon Nusantara Islamic School at IKN

President Jokowi leads the groundbreaking ceremony of Al-Azhar Summarecon Nusantara Islamic School, Tuesday (06/04). (Photo by: Bureau of Press, Media, and Information of Presidential Secretariat/Rusman)

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo led the groundbreaking ceremony of Al-Azhar Summarecon Nusantara Islamic School, Tuesday (06/04). The ceremony that was held at the Nusantara Capital (IKN), North Penajam Paser regency, East Kalimantan province was one of the Government’s efforts to prepare for education facilities in the area of IKN.

“I am very pleased to lead the ground breaking ceremony of Al-Azhar Summarecon Nusantara Islamic School, because education facilities are really needed in the IKN, be it elementary schools, junior high schools, senior high schools, and so on,” he said, adding that the Islamic school architecture is very well designed because it is in line with the IKN concept that blends with nature. The school is designed similar to stilt houses embellished with natural elements.

“It means that the school builds the character of the students since young age to get close to the environment and their religion,” President Jokowi observed.

With adequate education facilities, the President expressed belief that the investors will have no doubt to make an investment in IKN, especially when IKN will be more easily accessible by toll road and airport that are targeted to finish in the end of June or early August.

“Later, in the end of June or early August, the airport construction in IKN will be completed and commercial planes can finally land there. This will make IKN closer to you, Ladies and Gentlemen. I have come here probably more than ten times. I have tried to use the toll road and it is indeed so close,” he described.

President Jokowi also expressed his optimism that investing in IKN is a future investment for the investors. “Ladies and Gentlemen, you may see it now that the infrastructure has not ready yet and you probably imagine that it will take a very long time. However, if [the development of] both infrastructure has completed, the airport and the toll road, everything will totally change,” President Jokowi remarked. (Bureau of Press, Media, and Information of Presidential Secretariat) (AW/MMB)