BPJT: IKN Access Toll Road Targeted For Completion In April 2024

Tulus Abadi (Photo: Theresia Agatha/VOI)

JAKARTA - The Toll Road Regulatory Agency (BPJT) of the Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing (PUPR) targets that the IKN access toll road will be completed in April next year.

"The IKN Access Toll Road is targeted to be completed in April 2024," said BPJT Member of Public Elements Tulus Abadi in Jakarta, Thursday, November 16.

Tulus said that the acceleration of the completion of the IKN access toll road was in the context of celebrating the 79th Indonesian Independence Day at IKN Nusantara.

"The target before August 2024 is that a number of sections for the IKN Nusantara Access Toll Road have been completed," he said.

As previously reported, President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) said that the progress of toll roads to support access to the State Capital (IKN) of the Archipelago has reached 55 percent to date.

"The progress is almost 55 percent. It is hoped that later in June 2024 it will be used," said Jokowi while reviewing the toll road project in the IKN area, East Kalimantan, as quoted from the Presidential Secretariat's YouTube, Wednesday, November 1.

Jokowi said, with the construction of the toll road, later it could cut the travel time from Balikpapan to the IKN area from the previous around 2 hours 15 minutes to only 50 minutes.

"Now this toll road is built directly from Balikpapan to Nusantara. It only takes about 50 minutes, the distance is 57 kilometers (km), so it will accelerate the mobility of people and goods later to the archipelago," he said.

The PUPR Ministry itself is completing the construction of the toll road from Balikpapan to the Nusantara IKN area, in order to shorten the travel time from Balikpapan to IKN Nusantara, which is currently around 2 hours.

This toll road is connected to the Balikpapan-Samarinda (Balsam) Toll Road so that later when connected, it is estimated that the travel time is only around 30-45 minutes.

Currently, the construction of the IKN Toll Road has been running for 3 sections, and is targeted for completion in mid-2024.