Suai Timor Leste Airport To Mataf Masjidil Haram Is Karya Waskita In Mancanegara

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PT Waskita Karya (Persero) Tbk, as a state-owned construction company in Indonesia, has built various building projects, roads, and bridges.

Not only domestically, Waskita also builds buildings, roads, and bridges abroad from Timor Leste to Saudi Arabia.

Waskita Novianto Senior Vice President Corporate Secretary Ari Nugroho said Waskita's work abroad was a renovation project for the Grand Mosque in Makkah, Saudi Arabia.

The work on this project in the Holy Land is included in the King Abdullah Makkah Extension (KAME) project.

"Waskita added the floor level at the Grand Mosque, which previously had only three floors to nine floors. Waskita also worked on several works such as mock-ups, work in Mataf, and iron fabrication," he said in an official cage, Monday, December 12.

Novianto said that this Mataf work expanded the arena around the Kaaba, which previously was only able to accommodate 48,000 worshipers to 105.000 worshipers.

Meanwhile, the methods used are the formwork slab and the cantilever beam using the PERI system. As for the formwork column using metal (an eight-way column).

The beam wall formwork uses steel panels, and bottom beam uses plywood and wood peri.

"There is something interesting that was felt by one of Waskita's employees while working on a project at the Grand Mosque, Makkah, which is that many do not know that Indonesia has a construction company," he explained.

Not only at the Grand Mosque, said Novianto, in Raja Abdullah's country, Waskita also built King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD) in 2010-2012 to be exact. KAFD is a financial center for Saudi Arabia.

Furthermore, Novianto said, this project has an area of 61.215 m2 with a height of 31 floors.

"This building is also a green building and an energy-efficient building. This building also uses LED as a light in the building area," he explained.

Novianto said that Waskita had also built a Burj View Development in President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan's country, namely Dubai, United Arab Emirates. "This project includes the first Waskita project abroad, precisely in 2007-2008 with an area of 19,400 M2 and a working time of about 365 days or one year. Waskita also continues to spread its wings every year abroad," he said. In 2008, continued Novianto, Waskita was trusted to build the Abu Dhabi Financial Center-Podium & Stock Exchange located in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Waskita worked on the project for 380 days or 1 year less.

This building is the center of Abu Dhabi's finances. So you could say, Waskita has several times received projects related to Abu Dhabi or the United Arab Emirates before the Sheikh Zayed Mosque grant project in Solo, Central Java, which is a replica of the mosque with the same name in Abu Dhabi.

Expanding Wings to Timor Leste

Not only in the Middle East, said Novianto, Waskita spread its wings but also to Timor Leste, which is Indonesia's neighboring country.

Waskita in Timor Leste renovated an airport called Suai.

"What Waskita did in the project was the passenger terminal and then the apron, taxi way, and also the runway. Then recently, Waskita also received the Noefefan-Oenuno Road project at Ore-Cusse in Timor Leste worth 22.1 million US dollars or equivalent to Rp. 322 billion," he said. Novianto said, after the company was elected the winner in the tender. For the Noefenan-Oenuno Road project, the company will work on repairs or rehabilitation and maintenance.