Tomorrow, The Type A Terminal Of Samarinda Seberang Will Be Inaugurated By Jokowi

Samarinda Seberang Terminal (Photo: Ministry of Transportation)

JAKARTA - The Samarinda Seberang Type A Terminal has been completed and will be inaugurated soon. The plan is that President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) will inaugurate the terminal directly on Wednesday, February 28, 2024.

Director of Road Transportation Infrastructure Directorate General of Hubdat Kemenhub Toni Tauladan directly observed the preparations for the inauguration. He said preparations had been completed, and had even been decorated to welcome Jokowi and the ranks of ministers.

Toni said Jokowi would later make visits to a number of terminal areas, including seeing the MSME tenants inside the terminal accompanied by the Minister of Transportation and a number of other invitations.

Furthermore, Toni said the Samarinda Seberang Terminal was built on an area of 6,682 square meters with a building area of 3,600 square meters which is an asset of the Directorate General of Hubdat of the Ministry of Transportation.

"Where in 2020 we have served passengers of around 3,137 vehicles with 51,338 passengers," said Toni in an official statement, Tuesday, February 27.

Toni explained that this project was built by the Directorate General of Land Transportation of the Ministry of Transportation in mid-2020. The goal is to serve intercity inter-provincial (AKAP) passengers on the Samarinda-Banjarmasin and Inter-City Interior Province (AKDP) route from Samarinda to a number of areas in East Kalimantan.

The management of the type A passenger terminal is under the East Kalimantan Province Land Transportation Management Center (BPTD) to support land transportation, especially meeting the needs of people whose designs are more comfortable, safe and meet safety standards.

The construction work (revitalization) of the Samarinda Seberang Terminal in 2022 consists of bus parking areas, counter areas, health checks and rest areas, drop areas, roads to parking areas for small vehicles and others.

Toni said the construction of transportation facilities and infrastructure such as the Samarinda Seberang Terminal is very important to improve the comfort of land transportation users.

"The bus terminal does not only function as a place for passengers to ride and drop but also has other functions or mixed use, which is used as a modern terminal concept. So, it accommodates MSME activity centers, social activity centers and becomes integration between other modes," he explained.

In addition, he continued, it is also hoped that with the inauguration of the Seberang Samarinda Terminal, the terminal can be utilized optimally by the community and become a supporting facility for land transportation where East Kalimantan Province has been designated as the State Capital (IKN).

For your information, this passenger terminal meets the complete needs of transportation facilities in a number of areas, because previously Jokowi also inaugurated the Central Java Tingkir Salatiga Terminal, Paya Ilang Terminal, Takengon, Aceh and Anak Air Terminal, West Sumatra Padang, Central Java Purworejo Terminal, West Java Leuwipanjang Terminal and several other terminals.