After The Joint Meeting Of Pramono Anung, The Governor Of Koster Will Accelerate The Liberation Of Lands To Build The Jagat Kerthi Bali Toll Road

Cabinet Secretary, Pramono Anung Wibowo and Bali Governor Wayan Koster, after discussing land acquisition for the Jagat Kerthi Bali toll road in Jakarta. ANTARA/HO-Pemprov Bali

DENPASAR - Bali Governor Wayan Koster, in a Coordination Meeting (Rakor) with Indonesian Cabinet Secretary Pramono Anung Wibowo admitted that he would accelerate land acquisition which will be used for the construction of the Jagat Kerthi Bali toll road. "The decision to be implemented immediately is to accelerate land acquisition, including land measurements by the Bali BPN," said Koster in a statement received in Denpasar, Antara, Sunday, September 25. In addition to land measurements in accelerating land acquisition, accelerating land price determination by service providers, accelerating land payments by the regional government consortium, and accelerating construction by the regional government consortium, he said. In the coordination meeting which took place in Jakarta, last Friday, the Head of the Toll Road Regulatory Agency of the Ministry of PUPR, Danang Parikesit was also present. This meeting was held to follow up on the direction of the Minister of PUPR, Basuki Hadimuljono. At the laying of the first stone for the construction of the Jagat Kerthi Bali toll road in Jembrana, last Saturday, he conveyed to accelerate the connecting road infrastructure from Gilimanuk-Menwi. "I ask that the 96.21 kilometer toll road be completed immediately because this is a necessity for the community so that 2025 can be completed," he said at the time. With that, Koster agreed and decided to speed up the construction of the Rp24 trillion road which was originally planned to be completed in 2028. "In order for quality results, the Governor of Bali has the task of conducting surveillance to evaluate it strictly and routinely, then the results are reported to the Minister of PUPR in Jakarta," said Koster, in front of Cabinet Secretary, Pramono Anung. Koster said that the acceleration of the construction of the Jagat Kerthi Bali toll road, which is through three regencies, 13 sub-districts, these 58 villages, was carried out to realize the prosperous and happy life of Balinese citizens in a non-scale and scalable manner (worldly and non-World) according to the vision of the development of the Bali region, namely Nangun Sat Kerthi Loka Bali through a pattern of planned universe development towards a new era of Bali.