Jakarta, Feb 13 (ANTARA) - Trans Papua, Trans Maluku, Trans Java and
Trans Sumatra highways construction is expected to boost connectivity
across the country where people can drive to cover a distance of 5,000
km from the east to the west.
Sea corridors are also being built to connect Papua, with Maluku, Nusa
Tenggara, Java and Sumatra. Especially over the Sunda Strait, a long
bridge which would link Java and Sumatra is also under a planning
scheme.
Besides linking various islands, sea corridors are also built to
connect six major seaports from the western to the eastern parts of the
country, namely the Belawan seaport in Medan (North Sumatra) Batam,
Jakarta, Surabaya, Makassar and Sorong in Papua.
The sea corridor is called 'Pendulum Nusantara' (Archipelagic Pendulum).
Chief Economic Minister Hatta Rajasa said last month that the Pendulum
Nusantara system had become an official national program. "This national
program aims to cut logistics costs," he told a press conference at
Priok Port on January 21, 2013.
Once these projects which included Trans Highways and sea corridors are
already completed, one can drive his or her private car for a 5,000 km
trip or tour of the country from Marauke in the east to Sabang in the
west. Of course they have to use ferries within certain sections of
islands.
"We are programming the Trans Maluku in an integrated sea and land
transportation system so that people from Papua could go to Aceh through
Maluku," Maluku Governor Karel Albert Ralahalu said when he explained
the progress of the Trans Maluku Highway project last week.
In
Papu, a number of sections of the highways are nearing completion.
According to Tarianus Panjaitan, head of the Timika Working Unit of the
Ministry of Public Works said construction of the 369 kilometer Trans
Papua highway between Timika and Enarotali, in the District of Paniai
is almost completed. It is expected to be operational by the end of
2014.
In 2012, the working unit in Timika finished work to build 20 kilometers of the road.
Construction
of the Timika-Enarotali highway project began in 2010, and it has been
included in the Master Plan for Acceleration and Expansion of The
Indonesia Economic Development (MP3EI) for 2011-2025 launched by
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in Jakarta in 2011.
The project, which is estimated to cost around Rp900 billion is
expected to greatly boost economic development in the country's backward
region.
Regarding the Maluku trans highway, Maluku Governor Karel Albert
Ralahalu expressed hope that it would be finished soon. He said
that the project was also aimed at opening the isolation of islands in
the region which consisted of 1,340 isles and 92.4 percent water areas.
Its total land and water areas cover 712,479.65 sq km.
He said that if the Trans-Maluku construction was realized, travelers
from Papau could pass through Malauku to East Nusa Tenggara, Surabaya in
East Java, Jakarta and Sumatra.
"We are programming the Trans
Maluku in an integrated sea and land transportation connection so that
people from Papua could go to Aceh through Maluku," he said.
Besides the construction of highways in Papua and Maluku, the other
linking sections are those in Java. Now works are undergoing for nine
sections from Surabaya in East Java to Cikampek in West Java.
Cikampek is already connected with a toll road to Merak Harbor area
where ferries are ready serve travelers to cross the Sunda Strait to
Sumatra.
Public Works Minister expressed optimism last week that construction of
six of the nine Trans Java toll road sections would be finished by the
end of 2014.
"We are convinced the construction of the six sections would be
finished by the end of 2014," the minister said during a meeting with
Vice President Boediono on Tuesday last week.
The nine sections of the toll roads which are parts of the Trans Java
highway are those of Cikampek - Palimanan, Semarang - Solo, Solo -
Ngawi, Ngawi - Kertosono and Mojokerto - Surabaya with an accumulative
length of 649.98 km.
Vice President Boediono during the meeting last week expressed hope
that the contraction of the Surabaya - Cikampek toll roads would be
sped up.
"Actually, it is a difficult task but initiatives should be taken so
that targets in the construction of the projects would be achieved," he
said.
The vice president asked the ministry of public works to make a
breakthrough in carrying out its tasks, especially in clearing land.
"All officials and field executives should activate the existing
mechanism and ask regional government leaders to take part in handling
the project (land clearance)," he said.
He said that the quality of field officials should also be given a
special attention. Boediono called on ministers to monitor and evaluate
the construction of three sections of Trans-Java toll roads in Central
Java.
Based on the monitoring of the Presidential Working Unit for
Development Control and Supervision (UKP4), of the Trans Java's 649.98
km toll road project, only 62.3 km has been built up to the end of 2012
while the 587.68 km remained to be completed by 2014.
In the meantime, the Trans Java Highway is expected to link to the
Trans Sumatra which lies 2,000 km long from Bakauheni in the eastern
part of Sumatra to Aceh in the western tip of the island.
Trans
Java could be linked to the Sumatran highway with ferries in the Sunda
Strait or with a long bridge now being planned to be built over the
strait.
Therefore, the government is now planning to build the two major
projects which are expected to link economic activities between Java and
Sumatra, involving a total budget of about US$59.1 billion.
The two mega projects are the 27.4 km Sunda Strait Bridge (JSS) worth
US$27.8 billion and the 2,000 km Trans Sumatra toll road valued at
US$31.25 billion.
Expected to help improve the flow of goods and human transportation, as
well as to help generate economic development on the two islands of
Java and Sumatra, the two mega projects are scheduled for completion by
2025.
Finance Minister Agus Martowardojo has supported the proposal to speed up the construction of
Trans-Sumatra
toll roads, expressing hope that state-owned toll road firm PT Hutama
Karya would take the initiative. "We fully support the construction of
toll roads there," he said late last month.
Agus stated that there were several alternatives for PT Hutama
Karya --a state company set up to implement infrastructure projects--¿
to finance the toll road projects. "The alternatives include the
options of offering state capital investment, or issuing bonds, either
by the government or by PT Hutama Karya itself," he pointed out.
Therefore, the minister called for a feasibility study. "We will
support it all, but it would be better if PT Hutama Karya could conduct a
feasibility study. That¿s way, we could coordinate better with the
government and also with the Toll Road Regulator Agency (BPJI) on the
issue," Agus said.***3***
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