According to the BeatMag the Bali government has budgeted 21 billion rp for road works. As anyone who has visited Bali will tell you the conditions of the roads is pretty bad. Even compared with other SE countries such as Thailand the roads are in a poor state.
We've got 2 problems here. #1 the level of road construction is low. The quality and standard of the newly built rads is poor, that's why they decay and break less than a year later. Want to see properly made roads? Go inside the Nusa Dua complex, you won't find a pothole anywhere. Outside the main gate its back to reality and crappy roads again.
#2 is corruption. The people charged with managing the dispersal of money together with the local authorities often see government money as their private 'get rich quick' scheme. Its common knowledge that when a road construction project is approved the local government guy, police and banjar guys have a meeting to figure out how much of the pot will be theirs even before the thing has started.
Solution: Hire the company who built the roads in Nusa Dusa to do road construction. Then the roads would last 10 times as long.
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