Medan-Binjai section is the first and urgent one that will be constructed soon."Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The government has set itself a target to speed up Trans Sumatra toll road construction that will start in September 2013, a minister has said.
"We want to speed up the construction, and it will start this year in September," Coordinating Minister for Economy Hatta Rajasa said here on Thursday.
The economic minister made the remark at his office after attending a coordination meeting with related ministers to discuss the Trans Sumatra toll road, and the Sunda Strait Infrastructure and Strategic Areas (KSIS).
Hatta pointed out that the 2,700-km toll would be made up of 23 sections, extending from Aceh province to Lampung province, including Batam.
"Medan-Binjai section is the first and urgent one that will be constructed soon," the minister said, adding that the other urgent sections were from Riau to Kualanamo, and from Palembang to Lampung.
He noted that the construction of the Trans Sumatra toll road was stipulated in the Presidential Regulation No.86/2011 on the Strategic Area Development and Sunda Strait Infrastructure by assigning state-owned business enterprises (BUMN) as the project executor.
"The BUMN has been ready and in stage it will coordinate with the Public Works Ministry to construct all 23 sections of the toll road," Hatta said.
On the Occasion, Public Works Minister Djoko Kirmanto said said his party had conducted the feasibility study on the Trans Sumatra toll road.
"The feasibility study has been done and we find out that all sections of the road are economically feasible but not financially feasible," Djoko said.
Therefore, he has assigned BUMN to immediately start the first phase, namely four sections that link Medan-Binjai, Pekabnaru-Dumai, Indralaya-Palembang, and Bakaheuni-Terbanggi with the investment of more than Rp31.5 trillion.
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