How Many Trees Are Planted Along The Java-Sumatra Toll Road?

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JAKARTA - PT Hutama Karya has planted 60,000 trees during the 2021 period in all toll roads they manage. The planting is done on Earth Day, Biodiversity Day, World Environment Day, and others.

"We are always committed to balancing infrastructure development and management with environmental conservation along managed toll roads and rest areas in Java and Sumatra," said Executive Vice President (EVP) of Hutama Karya Toll Road Operation and Maintenance (OPT) Division, Dwi Aryono in a statement. his statement to the media, Friday, December 17, was quoted from Antara.

Tree planting has also been carried out on World Degradation and Drought Management Day, World Population Day, National Nature Conservation Day, Indonesian Housing Day, World Ozone Day, World Habitat Day, Tree Day or World Mountain Day. Reforestation on managed toll roads is one of the company's social and environmental responsibilities that must be preserved.

"We have just planted trees with the Djarum Foundation, at Rest Area KM 87 Line B, starting with planting 15,000 trambesi trees this year and next year," he said.

The types of trees planted are trambesi, mango, acacia, rambutan, chili, kasturi orange, jackfruit, areca nut, tabebuya, red shoots, bougainvillea and ketapang plants. The trees are divided across all Hutama Karya toll roads that are already in operation. The maximum number of trees planted in the Pekanbaru–Dumai section was 34,310 trees.

Next is the Terbanggi Besar - Pematang Panggang - Kayu Agung section with 12,450 trees, 4,795 trees in the Bakauheni-Terbanggi Besar section, 1500 trees in the Jakarta Outer Ring Road Section S (JORR-S), 1100 trees in the Sigli Banda-Aceh Section, respectively. 850 trees on the Medan-Binjai and Palembang-Indralaya sections, and 660 trees on the Tanjung Priok Access Section (ATP).

Dwi added that in addition to the planted trees, Hutama Karya also collaborated with the Djarum Foundation to plant millions of trees along the 2,818 KM segment on the Trans Sumatra Toll Road (JTTS).

Meanwhile, the economy that is being promoted by the Government, namely infrastructure management should be carried out in tandem with the social welfare of the community and economic growth with environmental preservation, conservation and preserving the biodiversity of the surrounding area.

"This concept will continue to be applied in the future, considering that various innovations have also been carried out in the construction of the toll roads that we manage, one of which is by building the Elephant Crossing Underpass (UPG) and planting elephant food around it in order to maintain the elephant ecosystem around it," said Dwi Aryono, EVP of Hutama Karya OPT Division.