Coordinating Minister AHY Ensures Kuta Wave Breaker Project Completes By The End Of 2026
DENPASAR - Coordinating Minister for Regional Infrastructure and Development (Menko IPK) Agus Harimurti Yudhonono (AHY) said the "breakwater" project at Kuta Beach, Badung Regency, Bali, was completed at the end of 2026.
This was conveyed by the Coordinating Minister for GPA during a review in Badung Regency, Monday, October 13, where the current construction of the wave breaking project has reached 18 percent.
"In the planned time until the end of next year, hopefully everything can be completed well," said the Coordinating Minister for GPA.
AHY explained that in the project five wavebreakers would be built with a length of 110 meters each.
The infrastructure development, which cost Rp260 billion, came from the collaboration between the Coordinating Ministry for GPA and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), which was carried out by PT Adhi Karya (Persero) with the aim of revitalizing the shoreline along Kuta, Legian, to Seminyak.
The Coordinating Minister for IPK explained that since 1980 until today there has been a change in the map at Kuta Beach, abrasion has made sand continue to retreat 15-20 meters, with coastlines experiencing abrasion of 5.3 km.
After research, the Coordinating Ministry for GPA saw that the most appropriate action was the "sand nourishment" method, which was to form a wave breaker and then add sand.
The process of adding sand is also not arbitrary, where the Coordinating Ministry for GPA chose the sand on Jimbaran Beach after seeing the same characteristics.
"After being examined, it is very similar to the sand along Kuta Beach, so it should not only look at one sector, but also based on research, then also experience being integrated with the roadmap that we have made for the long term," said AHY.
He explained that the construction of wave breakers immediately aims to preserve nature and the environment and maintain tourism destinations along Kuta.
"We also know that along Kuta beach there are many tourist destinations, many hotels, restaurants, including malls, which are also increasingly threatened by the withdrawal of the coastline, due to the abrasion earlier, once again protecting all public facilities and the community along this beach," he said.
While processing the wave breaker at Kuta Beach, Coordinating Minister AHY said that his party also recorded other areas in Bali that experienced abrasion vulnerability in order to get attention.
"Building infrastructure is not only to pursue economic growth, the sustainability of the Balinese natural environment is everything because Bali is the mainstay of all of us, if a disaster occurs, abrasion occurs which then also disrupts community activities and has the destructive power to the tourism economy sector, all who will bear the consequences," he said.