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Govt kicks off Cisumdawu toll-road project

The government kicked off the first phase of the Cileunyi-Sumedang-Dawuan (Cisumdawu) toll road on Thursday with an investment of Rp 1

Nurfika Osman (The Jakarta Post)
Jakarta
Fri, November 30, 2012

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Govt kicks off Cisumdawu toll-road project

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he government kicked off the first phase of the Cileunyi-Sumedang-Dawuan (Cisumdawu) toll road on Thursday with an investment of Rp 1.02 trillion (US$106.08 million).

The first phase, which will connect Cileunyi and Rancakalong, is expected to be completed in 2014.

Public Works Minister Djoko Kirmanto launched the ground-breaking ceremony, accompanied by West Java Governor Ahmad Heryawan, the ministry’s highway director general, Djoko Murjanto, and Toll Road Regulatory Agency (BPJT) head Ahmad Ghani Ghazali.

“I hope this project will finish on time because it was planned back in 2005 and the contract was signed in November 2011,” Djoko said in a statement sent to The Jakarta Post.

He said that 90 percent of the project would be financed by a soft loan from the Export-Import Bank of China and the remaining 10 percent by the state budget.

He also said that Cisumdawu was part of the TransJava toll road project that aims to smooth the transportation of both people and goods across Java. “The toll road is also expected to reduce congestion in Java,” he said.

The 60.28-kilometer Cisumdawu project is divided into six sections: Cileunyi–Rancakalong, Rancakalong–Sumedang, Sumedang–Cimalaka, Cimalaka–Legok, Legok–Ujunngjaya and Ujunjaya–Dawuan.

A China–Indonesia joint operation, which consists of the Shanghai Construction Group, Wijaya Karya and Waskita Karya, would construct whole sections of the toll road, he said.

In addition, Murjanto said that when the whole project was finished, it would help slash road trips between Bandung and Sumedang from two hours to only 15 minutes.

“This project will also help connect Bandung with the planned Kertajati International Airport in the future,” Murjanto said.

The West Java provincial government plans to construct Kertajati International Airport in the next two to three years because the existing Husein Sastranegara International Airport in Bandung has been operating overcapacity.

Earlier this month, the ministry kicked off another China-backed toll road project linking North Sumatra’s capital city of Medan with the Kuala Namu International Airport in Deli Serdang regency.

This project is part of the 40-kilometer Medan–Kuala Namu–Tebing Tinggi project that will connect the province’s capital city
not only to the new airport, but also to the palm oil center of Tebing Tinggi.

Murjanto previously said that four sections of the TransJava toll road were expected to be completed next year.

The projects include the Mojokerto and Kertosono first section, the Surabaya and Mojokerto fourth section, the Bawean and Ungaran section and the Tanjung Benoa-Ngurah Rai and Nusa Dua section.

According to the ministry, the land acquisition process in all of the four sections had reached around 70 to 80 percent.

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