Four Companies to Build Trans Sumatera Toll Road
18 March 2015 23:20 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Four state-owned companies will work together to build the 383-km Trans Sumatera toll road. Those companies are PT Jasa Marga, PT Hutama Karya, PT Wijaya Karya and PT Waskita Karya.
"Other companies can still join if they want to," said PT Jasa Marga president director Adityawarman on Wednesday, March 18, 2015.
The toll road segment that will be built in the near future is the Bakauheni-Terbanggi Besar-Pematang Panjang-Katu Agung segment.
However, the construction process is yet to begin because the government is currently revising the Presidential Decree No. 100/2014 that appoints PT Hutama Karya the only developer of the project. In addition, the cost of the project is yet to be estimated.
The Trans-Sumatera toll road project is a part of Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's administration plan, which hoped to be able to construct a 2,000 kilometers-long road that stretches from Banda Aceh to Bakauheni, Lampung.
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