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Hundreds given compensation for toll road
Hundreds of local residents in South Sumatra received on Monday a total of Rp 150 billion (US$12
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undreds of local residents in South Sumatra received onMonday a total of Rp 150 billion (US$12.51 million) in compensation for theirplots of land, which will be used for a proposed toll road in the province.
The compensation was paid out on land that will cover the first 7-kilometer section of the toll road, linking South Sumatra's provincial capital of Palembang with Indralaya, the seat of Ogan Ilir regency.
Two other sections of the road will be 5 km and 10 km, respectively.
One hundred twenty-three residents were paid compensation on Monday, while another 67 have yet to receive their compensation for the first section.
'We aim to pay compensation for the two other sections later this year. The value of the land is based on agreements with the residents,' the head of the Public Works Ministry's National Highway Construction Agency (BBPJN) III in Palembang, Tasripin Sartiono, said after the compensation payments were handed out in Indralaya on Monday.
He added that there were no significant problems in negotiating the compensation with the locals because the land plots had not been built upon.
