Infrastructure development is vital in providing the necessary conditions to foster growth and economic development in Indonesia. Infrastructure covers various sectors that represent a large share of an economy and become a critical index of economic vitality. Both components of infrastructure, physical and social infrastructures, are required to provide the necessary services for public interests. Reliable public utilities (e.g. power, telecommunication, water and gas supply, and other utilities), public works (e.g. roads, dams and canals, tunnels) and public transport (urban transports, railways, ports and waterways, and airports) are basic elements of a productive economy. Therefore, provision and maintenance of adequate infrastructure is essential for achieving rapid and sustainable economic growth. The adequacy of infrastructure helps to determine Indonesia’s key success factors in increasing productivity, expanding trade and industry, coping with population growth, reducing poverty, improving environmental sustainability and living standards of the society. The trends in infrastructure spending and the availability of infrastructure have improved significantly in Indonesia over recent years.
Responding to the need for infrastructure development in Indonesia, the Center for Sustainable Infrastructure Development (CSID) was established at the Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Indonesia. This study center was inaugurated on Tuesday, 9 September 2014 at the Lobby of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Indonesia, Salemba and was inaugurated by Dr. Chairul Tanjung (Coordinating Minister for the Economy of the Republic of Indonesia) and attended by Bambang Susantono, Ph.D (Deputy Minister of Transportation and as chairman of the CSID executive board), Prof. Dr. Ir. Muhammad Anis, M.Met (Rector of the University of Indonesia), Prof. Dr. Ir. Dedi Priadi, DEA (Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Indonesia), Prof. Mohammed Ali Berawi, M.Eng, Sc. Ph.D (Executive Director of CSID), and Dr. Ir. Luky Eko Wuryanto, MSc (Deputy for Infrastructure of the Coordinating Minister for the Economy).
Having established a solid reputation and recognition of its members, CSID research focuses on infrastructure design and planning, financial and business management and innovative use of technologies, coupled with emerging best practice approaches applied to infrastructure development. By having well-planned infrastructure research, we believe that potential breakthroughs will make infrastructure project development more efficient and effective, and therefore, more beneficial for both public and private sectors.
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CSID is an entrepreneurial environment in which researchers, skilled professionals and potential stakeholders from both academia and business can work side-by-side, ensuring that infrastructure in Indonesia can be successfully developed and accelerated to achieve the targeted national economic growth |
OUR VISSION
“To be international center of excellence in sustainable infrastructure development”