JK Snubs Claims on High Toll Road Tariffs
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8 February 2019 20:35 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The government said the calculation of toll road tariffs was based on investment and concession periods. Vice President Jusuf Kalla or JK said that turnpike fees in neighboring Malaysia was also costly.
Thus, he objected to claims that the tariffs of Indonesian toll roads were pricey. “The fee for a new toll road is a bit expensive,” said JK at the Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) building, Friday, February 8.
Jusuf Kalla, who is the general chairman of PMI, mentioned that the tariffs of the Jakarta-Bogor-Ciawi or the Jagorawi Toll road were the cheapest of all highways in the world—the same goes for the fees of the toll road heading to Bandung that was built decades ago.
“So they [the toll fees] depend on when the investment begins. Jagorawi is the cheapest in the world,” JK noted.
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Earlier, Suhendra Ratu Prawiranegara, a spokesman for the Prabowo-Sandiaga campaign team, said the tariffs of the country’s toll roads were the most expensive in Southeast Asia.
The expert staffer of the Ministry of Public Works and Housing for the 2005-2009 period outlined that the toll road fees in Indonesia were in the neighborhood of Rp1,300 to Rp1,500 per kilometers, while Singapore saw Rp778 per kilometers, Malaysia Rp492/km, Thailand Rp440/km, Vietnam Rp1,200/km, and the Philippines Rp1,050/km.
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