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PRESIDENT joko Widodo (Jokowi), on Tuesday (07/31), 2024, conducted a first-hand review of Nusantara Hotel in New Capital Nusantara (IKN), East Kalimantan Province, which is due for inauguration on August 17, 2024. On the occasion, Jokowi personally inspected several facilities, including the lobby, a dining room, and bedrooms.
As cited from the Presidential Secretariat’s statement in Jakarta, Nusantara Hotel’s assistant director of sales, Hazel Yehezkiel Pauranan, noted that the inauguration of the 191-room hotel would coincide with the celebration of Indonesia’s 79th Independence Day.
“We began operating on July 28, 2024, despite not being fully operational since some rooms are not yet ready for use,” he remarked.
Pauranan further stated that the work to construct the Nusantara Hotel, launched by President Jokowi on September 21 last year, was already complete. “We are currently furnishing the lobby while the Nusantara Restaurant has become operational,” he revealed.
During his earlier review of the hotel’s development on December 20 last year, Jokowi expressed optimism about the Nusantara Hotel being ready before August 2024. On the occasion, the head of state stated that the development of the hotel, which covers an area of 20,164 square meters, had progressed to around 34%.
“Judging by the progress reached, I estimate that the development process will be completed before August (2024),” he told the media after inspecting the hotel.
Nusantara Hotel is a five-star hotel located near the zero-kilometer point of IKN. The nine-floor hotel, measuring about 43-meters in height, was built with IDR20 trillion (US$1.2 billion) of capital invested by nine domestic business entities. [antaranews]
