The Ministry Of Public Works Receives Mobile Laboratory Grants From South Korea, Facilitates Road Quality Tests

Screenshots - The Indonesian government through the Ministry of Public Works (PU) received a mobile laboratory grant from South Korea to facilitate road quality testing. (Photo: Instagram @kementerianpu)

JAKARTA - The Indonesian government through the Ministry of Public Works (PU) received a mobile laboratory grant from the Ministry of Defense, Infrastructure and Transportation of the Republic of Korea on November 18, 2025.

This was done in the framework of the Official Development Assistance (ODA) collaboration entitled "The Establishment of Digital Road Paving Quality Management System and Green Road Technology in Indonesia."

Director General of Highways of the Ministry of Public Works, Roy Rizali Anwar, said that the mobile laboratory greatly supports testing facilities that are mobile or mobile and concise. Then, ready to use in the field as well as direct data collection to reporting.

"Mobile laboratory was built on top of the truck's Tata Daewoo CL4T8 6times4 with a low-floor BOGO trailer and an expandable hydraulic module. This unit allows direct sampling, testing and analysis at construction sites and road maintenance," Roy said as quoted from a video upload on the official Instagram account @kementerianpu, Tuesday, November 25.

Roy said the cooperation between the Indonesian Government and the South Korean Government had begun in 2023, with the aim of building the digitization of Indonesia's road pavement quality management system and supporting the application of green road pavement technology.

He added that the lab car grant means a lot to Indonesia. The reason is, with mobile or moving testing facilities, it allows the Ministry of Public Works to test the quality of roads in the asphalt, aggregate and mixture of asphalt quickly and efficiently in the field.

"Let me express my appreciation and gratitude to the Government of the Republic of South Korea, especially the MOLIT (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport) for the support of extraordinary cooperation so far, especially with the handover of this lab car grant," he concluded.