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Land to be cleared for toll road to Tanjung Priok
Agnes Winarti , The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Thu, 03/06/2008 12:03 PM | City
North Jakarta is to acquire 26.8 hectares of land for the construction of a toll road to Tanjung Priok Port, an official said Wednesday.
The procurement of the land is expected to be completed by June this year at the latest, assistant for territory of the jurisdiction planning division in North Jakarta, Ciptono, told The Jakarta Post.
The 12.4-kilometer toll road will stretch from Rorotan in Cakung-Cilincing industrial area to Tanjung Priok Port, and then connect to the Ancol-Pluit tollway lane.
"Currently, the access road to Tanjung Priok Port, Jl. Cilincing Raya, is blocked with massive traffic congestion due to road damages," said Hendra Budi, public relations officer of the Indonesian state-owned port operator PT Pelabuhan Indonesia (Pelindo) II.
The toll road heading to the port currently ends in Cakung, forcing container trucks transporting exported and imported goods to use the public road Jl. Cilincing Raya, causing long delays to the goods' arrival at the port.
He estimated that each day there were 5,000 to 6,000 container trucks passing through the two-lane and 10-meter-wide road.
"In good road conditions, a container truck can make up to three trips a day. But now it can only make a trip a day.
"It can take a truck 24 hours on busy days -- Thursday, Friday and Saturday -- just to get to the port from the industrial area (15 kilometers away) in Cakung," Hendra told the Post.
A government report stated up to 60 percent of Indonesia's imports and exports were made via Tanjung Priok Port.
The Land Transportation Organization (Organda) said the damaged Cakung-Cilincing road could cause losses as high as Rp 2.2 billion a day in trailer rental costs.
The construction of the toll road will be divided into two phases: first the eight-km segment from Rorotan to Tanjung Priok port, then four kilometers more from the port to the Ancol-Pluit tollway.
"Starting Wednesday and Thursday, we will announce the land acquisition plan in Cilincing and Koja, the two districts nearest the toll road's first entrance," Ciptono said.
Land acquisition for the second phase of construction will also be conducted later in two other districts, Tanjung Priok and Pademangan. Some 80 percent of the land to be acquired belongs to PT Pelindo.
Ciptono said the city administration allocated some Rp 350 billion (about US$38.5 million) to acquire a total of 26.8 hectares of land.
The toll road is a joint project between the city and the central government, with the city providing money for land procurement and the central government covering the cost of construction.
The Public Works Ministry will begin construction in October. The road linking with the Jakarta Outer Ring Road (JORR) will open in April 2010.
The some Rp 4.2 trillion project is funded by the state budget and a loan from the Japan Bank for International Cooperation.
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Incredible,
38.5 million $ for 26.8 hectares of land means that a square meter is worth at 1 418 $ There must be a mistake or can someone explain to me why land in Cakung is ten time more than a nice piece of land in Bali!!!!!!