Getting To Know The IKN Underwater Toll Project And Lacks And Excess Immersed Tunnel

YOGYAKARTA The government will build an underwater toll road or immersed tunnel at IKN Nusantara. The IKN underwater toll road project itself is planned to start working after 2024. Currently, the Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing (PUPR) is preparing the tunnel toll road design.

As is known, the underwater toll road or herded tunnel is part of the IKN Access Toll Road which will later connect Balikpapan City with IKN Nusantara. Later users who will go to IKN will make crossings.

The IKN Access Toll Road serves to shorten the distance from people to IKN from cities around IKN such as Balikpapan and Samarinda.

Quoted from various sources, the construction of the undersea toll road itself in general will be made like a tunnel under water using immersed tunnel technology.

According to the Unsoed Civil Engineering Student Association website, the herded tunnel is an underwater tunnel consisting of several cements of this tunnelingproof chamber that will be built floating in a predetermined location and will connect one mainland to another.

In Indonesia, the herded tunnel is still relatively new. However, this model has been used in several countries such as Fehmarnan tunnels in Europe and Geoje, Busan in South Korea. In addition, the Immersed tunnel was also implemented in the United States, precisely at Boston Harbor in 1893. Immersed tunnel is mostly used in the construction of river, estuary, and sea channels or port crossings.

In Indonesia, underwater tunnels will be built with a length of approximately 1.5 kilometers in the form of boxes connecting the two lands that have been separated by Balikpapan Bay.

One of the reasons why the Government wants to build underwater tunnels is to protect the seeds, as well as protect other endemic fauna and flora as a whole in the area around Balikpapan Bay.

The IKN underwater toll road progress itself is still in the stage of deepening the details of engineering design (DED) by the Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing. In the deepening process, the Government involved international consultants because this project was completely new to Indonesia.

As is known, the Immersed tunnel IKN project is part of Section 4 of the IKN Central Government Core Area Toll Road (KIPP). The existence of an Immersed tunnel is also in accordance with the forest city concept as the concept carried by IKN Nusantara.

Apart from the IKN herded tunnel project, on the website of the Ministry of PUPR, it is stated that the herded tunnel technology is still relatively expensive, but has a number of advantages. For example, underwater tunnels have an easy treatment method. In addition, tunnels have relatively few environmental disturbances compared to other conventional bridges.

In addition, on the Unsoed Civil Engineering Student Association website, it is also stated that the construction of immersed tunnels does not require long space, and has various shapes adapted to transportation needs.

Immersed tunnel can also be built in almost all water bases and the work can be said to be fast and easy.

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