TheJakartaPost
Please Update your browser
Your browser is out of date, and may not be compatible with our website. A list of the most popular web browsers can be found below.
Just click on the icons to get to the download page.
No halt to ongoing toll road projects, Public Works Ministry vows
Regardless of the President's instruction to temporary halt major infrastructure projects, the Public Works Ministry has vowed to continue ongoing toll road projects, arguing that roads were necessary to pave the way for Prabowo's three-pronged goal of food, energy and water security.
Change text size
Gift Premium Articles
to Anyone
Share the best of The Jakarta Post with friends, family, or colleagues. As a subscriber, you can gift 3 to 5 articles each month that anyone can read—no subscription needed!
The Benoa tollgate on the Bali Mandara toll road is readied to welcome users ahead of the 2022 Group of 20 Bali Summit, in this undated file photo. (Antara/Aji Cakti)
T
he Public Works Ministry insists on continuing work on existing toll road projects, despite President Prabowo Subianto’s instruction to temporarily halt future plans for major infrastructure, including new toll roads.
Rachman Arief Dienaputra, the ministry’s highway director general, said work would continue on all toll road projects in the pipeline, including those under construction as well as those in the initial stages of preparation, feasibility studies or auctions.
“There are no toll road [projects] that have been stopped. Yesterday, I told my [colleagues] we will continue [working on] toll roads that have been contracted and [those] that are currently being auctioned,” Rachman told a press briefing in Jakarta on Thursday, as quoted by DetikFinance.
He stressed that no existing toll road projects would be put on hold, and that privately funded projects would go on nonetheless.
“The deputy minister said that if we halted [the projects], we would be sued,” Rachman added, jokingly.
Read also: Govt halts big infrastructure in trade-off for food security: Minister
Sony Sulaksono Wibowo of the Indonesia Toll Road Authority (BPJT) said the President had called for a temporary halt to new infrastructure projects, including new toll roads, while the government evaluated the strength of the 2025 state budget.
