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Public Works Ministry set to operate 11 new toll roads for ‘mudik’
With the 2023 mudik (exodus) season expected to see a record of more than 120 million Indonesians traveling across the country, authorities plan to temporarily open 11 new toll roads across Java and Sumatra to accommodate travelers.
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Vehicles line up bumper-to-bumper in April 2022 at a tollgate in Karawang, West Java, as people return to their hometowns to celebrate Idul Fitri, which fell on May 2-3 last year. (Reuters/Yuddy Cahya Budiman)
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ith the 2023 mudik (exodus) season expected to see a record of more than 120 million Indonesians traveling across the country, the Public Works and Housing Ministry plans to temporarily open 11 new toll roads across Java and Sumatra to accommodate travelers.
“The 11 toll roads, consisting of seven roads in Java and four in Sumatra with a total length of 222 kilometers, will only be open during the mudik period,” Indonesia Toll Road Authority (BPJT) secretary Triono Junoasmono said in a press release published on Monday.
“For now, we’re still conducting some last-minute work scheduled to be completed 10 days before Idul Fitri.”
Separately, Public Works and Housing Minister Basuki Hadimuljono expected that one of the toll roads, the 28.2 km-long segment four through six of the Cisumdawu toll road, will considerably help travelers trying to go from the south coast to the north coast of West Java.
“People going from [Bandung, West Java] to [Semarang, Central Java] no longer have to go through Cikampek anymore, they can go straight to Dawuan,” Basuki said on Thursday. Segment one through three of the Cisumdawu toll road, which connects Cileunyi in Bandung, West Java, to Dawuan in Cirebon, also in West Java, is already operational.
Other new toll roads include segment two of the Ciawi-Sukabumi toll road (11.9 km), segment two of the Cimanggis-Cibitung toll road (3.5 km), segment four of the Pasuruan-Probolinggo toll road (8.6 km), segment one of the Surakarta-Yogyakarta toll road (6.1 km), segment four of the Cibitung-Cilincing toll road (7.3 km) and segment three of the Jakarta-Cikampek II toll road (28.7 km).
Meanwhile, the Public Works and Housing Ministry is also set to open segments of the trans-Sumatra toll road totaling around 120 km in length, including various segments of the Kuala Tanjung-Tebing Tinggi toll road (44.1 km), segments of the Sigli-Banda Aceh toll road (12.7 km), segments of the Indralaya-Muara Enim toll road (63.5 km) and segments of the Binjai-Langsa toll road (7.2 km).
