IKN Will Have An Underwater Tunnel, When Will It Be Built?

JAKARTA - The government through the Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing (PUPR) will build an underwater tunnel or the first tunnel for the State Capital (IKN), East Kalimantan.

Immersed tunnel is designed to cross the waters by building it somewhere and later being drowned to connect to each other. According to the plan, the underwater tunnel has a length of 2 kilometers (km).

Head of the IKN Development Task Force (Kasatgas) of the Ministry of PUPR Danis H Sumadilaga said the project might be worked on next year.

"Maybe 2025. We will prepare the design first because of this, right, the first time we do it. So, we prepare it as well as possible," said Danis when met after the Denons HPRP Law and Regulation Outlook 2024 agenda: Towards the New Capital City of the Archipelago in Jakarta, Monday, February 26.

Danis said the project could be carried out by the government or through an investment scheme. However, he is trying to increase the tunnel, which can later be worked on by private investment.

"For IKN, such as alternative toll roads, whether carried out by the government or through investment. I think the choice is, we will see later. We, right, all also hope that as much as possible not from the government, but from investment," he said.

The progress of the IKN underwater tunnel itself is still in the stage of deepening the details of engineering design (DED) by the Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing (PUPR). 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.