President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo has on Friday (Sep 25) inaugurated commercial operation of Pekanbaru-Dumai toll road (131 KM) in Riau Province, which was built with Rp16.21 trillion of investment from state EPC firm PT Hutama Karya. The toll road will boost connectivity in the resources-rich province, which is home to major pulp-paper, palm oil, and oil & gas operations.
The toll road is part of the ambitious trans-Sumatra toll road program covering 2,987 KM, of which 647 KM has been operational. Some other sections in North Sumatra and South Sumatra are scheduled to enter commercial operation in the coming months.
In Sulawesi Island, the elevated toll road in Makassar, the capital city of South Sulawesi province, the largest city in eastern part of Indonesia, is ready to enter commercial operation because its physical construction progress already reached 92.32% as of last week. The toll road is built and operated by PT Nusantara Infrastructure Tbk (META), an entity indirectly controlled by Salim Group.
In West Java, physical construction of access toll road for Patimban port in Subang Regency, which could be one of the largest ports in Southeast Asia, is pending decision from the government on project developer. The toll road (37.7 KM) is initiated by a consortium of state toll road operator Jasa Marga (JSMR, 50%), PT Surya Semesta Internusa Tbk (SSIA, 25%), PT Daya Mulia Turangga (10%), and PT Jasa Sarana (10%) with estimated investment cost of Rp7.5 trillion.
The new port in Subang will likely start a limited operation in the coming weeks. Agus Purnomo, director general of sea transportation at ministry of transportation, said soft opening is scheduled this month. Set to become the largest port in the country, its car terminal can handle 225,000 completely built-up (CBU) cars for export market per annum. The port will significantly support car manufacturing companies located in the Bekasi-Karawang-Purwakarta corridor.
Patimban Port is developed in three stages with estimated investment of Rp40 trillion. Phase I of Stage I covers 250,000 TEUs for containers and 218,000 cars. This will be followed with Phase II (2021-2023) to boost container handling capacity to 3.75 million TEUs and 600,000 cars. Phase III (2024-2027) will see container terminal’s capacity to reach 7 million TEUs.
Rail Transportation: The light-rail transit (LRT) for Greater Jakarta area has reached 74.83% completion, where in the Cibubur-Cawang section reached 88.82% as of late August. Section Cawang-Dukuh Atas reached 69.73%, while Cawang-Bekasi Timur reached 67.64%. Land acquisition for depo in Bekasi Timur, the most difficult part of the project, has almost been completed (99%). That means the LRT should be ready for commercial operation in June 2022.
Phase II of the Jakarta mass-rapid transit (MRT), which connects Bundaran HI in Central Jakarta and Ancol Barat in North Jakarta (12 KM), in the meantime, has reached physical construction progress of 8% by September 19. Construction of the East-West section of the MRT, however, is pending approval from ministry of transportation. In total, Jakarta expects to have 425 KM of MRT network in operation by 2035.
As for the high-speed train (HST), the government has decided to extend the Jakarta-Bandung line to Surabaya, the capital city of East Java province to boost commercial feasibility of the project. The Jakarta-Bandung section, which is now in construction stage, will likely start commercial operation in 2022, behind initial schedule due to disruption of works during the pandemic.
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