The Analysis of Willingness to Pay for Operations and Financing Road Maintenance at Tengku Hasan Street Aceh Besar District

Abstract

Infrastructure components are generally divided into two major parts, namely cost-back and no-cost return. Infrastructure financing is not returned by involving the community financially by using a system that is often referred as connection fees are charges imposed by the company or government services to individuals. This study was carried out to investigate the willingness to pay (WTP) by civilian for operations and financing road maintenance in Tengku Hasan Street, Aceh Besar. The study was conducted by distributing questionnaires to 140 respondents who are villagers Bakoy and employees of Tirta Mountala Company. The value of the average WTP community is IDR 1.800 per month. With the amount of WTP values of IDR 2.4642 million per month, or approximately IDR 29.5704 million per year. The values indicate that a very small amount of people is willing to pay for the operations and maintenances in Tengku Hasan street but it can be concluded that there is awareness of the public to get a decent quality infrastructure despite having to pay a fee. The majority of respondents chose to agree to be involved financially in the operation and maintenance of Tengku Hasan street Bakoy village, Aceh Besar district with citations per year, as many as 41 people or 56.9%.