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Jokowi inspects 2 toll road projects aimed at solving congestion
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A man works on a section of the Bekasi-Cawang-Kampung Melayu toll road in East Jakarta on March 31. (ANTARA FOTO/Widodo S Jusuf)
P
resident Joko "Jokowi" Widodo visited two toll road projects in Jakarta on Tuesday as part of his working agenda in making sure that infrastructure projects were completed on schedule.
Jokowi visited the Depok-Antasari toll road project in South Jakarta. The 21-kilometer-long toll road worth Rp 4.7 trillion is expected to be completed in 2018. To date, the contractors, Wijaya Karya, Hutama Karya and PP, have completed 40 percent of the work.
The President later visited the Bekasi-Kampung Melayu toll road project in East Jakarta. Seven of the total 21 km of road has been completed, while land for the remaining 14 km has yet to be acquired.
"It is expected to be completed by the end of 2017. The toll road connecting Bekasi-Cawang and Kampung Melayu is expected to be a solution to congestion in the capital," Jokowi told reporters at the toll road construction site in Duren Sawit, East Jakarta.
He acknowledged that land acquisition was a major problem in toll road projects that hampered work progress and stalled some projects for decades.
With the implementation of the 2012 law on land acquisition for basic infrastructure, he expected land issues to be solved. "This law is a legal basis for acceleration in the field," he said. (ags)
