"The toll road networks connect productive locations, such as industrial centers, tourism attractions, airports, and ports, reduce logistics and freight costs, and enhance the competitiveness of domestic products," Minister of Public Works and Public Housing Basuki Hadimuljono said in Jakarta on Friday.
As of November 2021, the toll roads in the country comprised 795 km of toll roads constructed between 1978 and 2014, 1,298 km of toll roads constructed in the 2015–2019 period, and 246 km of toll roads developed in 2020 alone, he informed.
"From January until November 2021, a total of 122.9 kilometers of toll roads were opened, and 32.2 km of toll roads were expected to become operational by December to complete the 2,489.2 km of operational toll roads in Indonesia this year," the minister added.
In the January–November 2021 period, the ministry completed the construction of 10 new toll roads nationwide, Hadimuljono said.
Six of the new toll road sections that opened in the Greater Jakarta area include the 8.2-km section 3A of the Bogor Ring Road, the 14.2-km Cengkareng-Batu Ceper-Kunciran toll road, the 6.5-km section 1 of the Serpong-Cinere toll road, the 2.7-km section 1 of the Cibitung-Cilincing toll road, the 26.5-km Serang-Panimbang toll road, and the 9.3-km six section A toll roads in Jakarta, the minister stated.
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The remaining new toll road networks are located outside Java island, he informed. They include the 8.2-km section B1 of the Kayu Agung-Palembang-Betung toll road, the 16-km section 3 of the Sigli-Banda Aceh toll road, the 4.2-km section 1A of the Medan-Binjai toll road in Sumatra, and the 32.4-km section 1 and 5 of the Balikpapan-Samarinda toll road in Kalimantan, he added.
The three toll roads expected to become operational by December 2021 are the 13.5-km section 2B of the Manado-Bitung toll road in Sulawesi, the 6.4-km section 2 of the Sigli-Banda Aceh toll road, and the 12.3-km Binjai-Stabat section of the Binjai-Langsa toll road in Sumatra, he said.
The ministry is targeting to operationalize a total of 1,010.8 km of new toll roads in the 2022–2024 period, with 421.8 km of toll roads targeted to be made operational by 2022, 338.1 km by 2023, and 250.8 km by 2024, the Hadimuljono said.
He then reiterated his ministry's commitment to continue developing toll roads, which have been designated as one of the national strategic projects for achieving the target for operationalizing 3,500 km of toll roads nationwide by 2024.
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Editor: Rahmad Nasution
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