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Indonesia’s toll roads under development

Indonesia is working on plans to develop its toll road network during 2019. A further 400km of new toll roads will be completed during 2019, bringing Indonesia’s total toll road length to 2,000km in all. Key toll road sections due for completion include stretches of the Jakarta Outer Ring Round 2 and the Balikpapan-Samaridan toll road. Indonesia’s Trans-Sumatra toll road is one of the country’s key projects, with some 561km of the route due to be in use by the end of 2019. The Balikpapan-Samarinda toll road
July 18, 2019 Read time: 1 min

Indonesia is working on plans to develop its toll road network during 2019. A further 400km of new toll roads will be completed during 2019, bringing Indonesia’s total toll road length to 2,000km in all. Key toll road sections due for completion include stretches of the Jakarta Outer Ring Round 2 and the Balikpapan-Samaridan toll road. Indonesia’s Trans-Sumatra toll road is one of the country’s key projects, with some 561km of the route due to be in use by the end of 2019. The Balikpapan-Samarinda toll road project is over 99km in length and is over 90% complete.

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