17,865 Kilometers Toll Road Targeted To Build By 2040

Director General of Highways of the Ministry of Public Works Rachman Arief Dienaputra. (Theresia Agatha/VOI)

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Public Works (PU) targets the construction of a 17,865.43 kilometer (km) expressway in the 2025-2040 period.

The Director General of Highways at the Ministry of Public Works, Rachman Arief Dienaputra, explained that the massive toll road construction target was carried out to increase connectivity in the country. In particular, to support food and energy security.

"Then we will also build a fairly massive toll road development plan in 2025-2040, yes, (overall 17,865.43 km) and ensure the construction of toll exit," he said at the National Seminar on Road Day 2024 at the Ministry of Public Works office, Jakarta, Thursday, December 19.

The reason, said Rachman Arief, is that currently there are toll exites that are less connected to food production areas to industrial areas. So, in the future, when carrying out the construction of the new toll road, his party will conduct a more detailed assessment of the toll exit position.

The toll exit at 17,865 km of the new toll road will be built to support Special Economic Zones (SEZs), Industrial Estates (KIs) to a number of other strategic areas.

Based on the data presented, 5 of the 6 major islands in Indonesia have been connected toll roads. Among them, Sumatra, Kalimantan, Java, Sulawesi and Bali islands.

Meanwhile, two other islands, namely Papua to Maluku, have not even planned to connect toll roads at all.

In detail, the length of the toll road in Sumatra which has operated along 672.7 km of the total toll road length plan reaches 4,924.59 km. Then, the total length of the toll road operates in Kalimantan Beru 97.27 km from the total plan of reaching 2,811.85 km.

Sulawesi has a toll road length operating along 48.03 km out of a total plan of 2,658.79 km and Bali and Nusa Tenggara toll roads operating 10.07 km from the total planned connected toll road reaching 319.88 km.

Meanwhile, Java is the most connected island with a length of toll roads operating reaching 1,632.63 km. However, that length is still far from the total planned toll road which is built along 4,688.94 km.

"We make sure the end in the end between national roads, toll roads, provincial and district roads can be connected properly. That's what we will pursue," he concluded.