No, this news clip does not say Indonesia is selling key infrastructure sites to foreign firms

The post, which was shared to Facebook on September 14, contains a clip of video from a TV One broadcast. The post is captioned: “Jokowi sells toll road, seaport and airport to foreign entities.”

Jokowi is a popular nickname for Widodo.

The post in the “Indonesia News” Facebook group has more than 13,000 shares and 4,200 reactions.

The video clip, which is around three minutes long, does not talk about Widodo selling key infrastructure to foreign firms as the caption claims.

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The clip starts with the presenter saying: “the (Jokowi) administration’s plan to offer management of infrastructure to private foreign entities has divided opinion.”

It mentions a Jakarta container ship terminal, which is already managed by a Hong Kong firm, and talks about how New Zealand has been offered a deal to manage the international airport on the holiday island Lombok.

An airport and a port in Sumatra as well as toll roads in Java and Bali are also mentioned.

The clip does not say that any of the sites are being offered for sale to foreign firms.

Endra Saleh Atmawidjaja, spokesman for the Public Works and Housing Ministry which oversees Jokowi’s infrastructure projects, rejected the Facebook post’s claims.

“There is no plan to sell those infrastructure assets mentioned,” he told AFP.

“There have been no assets that have been sold off until now. In fact the only thing that can be offered is management rights, not ownership rights.”

Jakarta International Container Terminal public relations official Suryansyah, who like many Indonesians uses only one name, told AFP that the facility is managed by Hong Kong company Hutchison but owned by Indonesia's state-run seaport company,  Pelindo II.