Edisi 12 Juni 2013 | International Bali Post

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Completed 98 percent

Toll road ascertained to be in operation before APEC Summit

The toll road on Benoa which will be used during the 2013 APEC Summit. IBP/File

Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Construction of the toll road or the overwater road connecting Nusa Dua-Benoa-Ngurah Rai seems to have been sped up in order to meet the APEC Summit next October. As evidence, the project worth IDR 2.4 trillion can be done more quickly than the original target. This first toll road in Bali is ascertained to be completed within 14 months, 4 months faster than the initial target of 18 months. “This toll road project has showed a 98-percent progress. Actually the physical work has been completed and it remains to make finalization and installation of traffic signs. Thus, we can make sure the toll road can have been operated before the APEC Summit next October,” said

Commissioner of PT Jasa Marga, Ibnu Purna Muchtar, amidst the site inspection of the board of commissioners and directors of PT Jasa Marga with media crews on the toll road, Monday (Jun 10). He hoped the toll road over the sea would become a new icon for

Bali and tourist attraction. Even, he mentioned the length of the toll road over the waters (JDP) was similar to the Union Bridge in Canada. Such Bali’s first toll road built over the sea spread along approximately 12.7 kilometers, virtually the same as the Union Bridge in Canada along 12.9 kilometers. Not only that, Ibnu also mentioned the length of toll road over the waters was almost the same as the Penang Bridge in Malaysia spreading along 13.5 kilometers. One thing making a pride was the design and construction of the road was entirely made by best native experts to Indonesia. The toll road along12.7 kilometer was completed

within 14 months, faster than the initial plan of 18 months. When traced back, the toll road construction was intended to address the severe congestion around the Dewa Ruci roundabout. Departing from a survey, he said, the number of four-wheeled and more vehicles passing through the Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai every day reached more than 40,000, excluding the motorcycles of much more than 56,000 every day. “We hope the presence of this toll road can break up the congestion in Southern Bali,” he said. Successful development of the toll road proved that Indonesia had the capability and adequate

technology for the construction of road and bridge over the sea. Aside from the design and construction, the investment of toll road costing around IDR 2.4 trillion also fully used the company’s internal fund and domestic financing sources with the composition of 30 percent of company’s fund and 70 percent of loans from domestic banking syndicate. “Unlike Suramadu Bridge, it was financed by foreign loans of the state budget (APBN), while the Bali toll is purely financed by the company and corporate loans in the country without any burden to the state budget,” said Ibnu. Continued on page 6


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