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2020-2024 the target has doubled to
2,500 km long.

Challenges in Facing Covid-19
Pandemic

However, the Covid-10 pandemic outbreak
affected the target that the government
had determined. Since the pandemic
broke out in Indonesia which was followed
by a Large-Scale Social Restriction
BADAN PENGATUR JALAN TOL impacted. In the DKI Jakarta region, PSBB
(Pembatasan Sosial Berskala Besar/
PSBB), all aspects of the human life were

was implemented since 10 April 2020.

The Covid-19 pandemic forces the
government to reallocate a large sum of
the national budget in order to deal with
it. The maximum 2020 budget limit for the
Ministry of Public Works and Housing was
Rp120.2 trillion, but it had to be cut down
to Rp75.63 trillion. The budget was then re-
amended and increased to Rp85.7 trillion
in order to support the National Economic
Recovery (Pemulihan Ekonomi Nasional/
Penandatanganan PPJT, 2020.
PEN) program.
As the result of this budget reallocation,
2020 Toll Road many programs had to be delayed. The
again increased in December 2020 by 96.5.

The Coordinating Ministry for Economic Operations Review implementation of projects that were
just starting up or were ongoing had to be
Affairs has announced that national extended. Even so, the Ministry of Public
economic recovery in 2021 will be possible Toll roads have transformed. Toll roads Works and Housing still supports the
to pursue by boosting purchasing power, have changed the mobility patterns of National Economic Recovery Program, such
accelerating investment through structural people and goods. Toll roads support not as by expanding the scope of the Cash For
reforms, and restoring exports. With this only mobility over long distances, but also Work Program.
policy mix, economic growth in 2021 is mobility between adjacent cities, such as
projected in the range of 4.5 percent to 5.5 Solo-Semarang or Surabaya-Malang. Apart from that, the Ministry of Public
percent in 2021. Works and Housing issued an Instruction
Passanger transportation services that of the Minister of Public Works and
This figure falls within the range of some offer travel via toll roads are also becoming Housing Number 02/IN/M/2020 regarding
multilateral institutions. The World Bank, increasingly popular in public because of its the Protocol for Preventing the Spread of
for example, estimated that Indonesia’s short travel times, such as routes passing Covid-19 in the Operation of Construction
economy will grow 4.4 percent in 2021. through the Trans-Java Toll Road. Buss Services. This regulation has become the
Likewise, IMF projected Indonesia’s operators added not only routes, but also guidelines for ITRA and business entities
economic growth to reach 4.8 percent. departure schedules because toll roads in field executions. When a worker is found
OECD predicted 4.4 percent growth in provide a more certain travel duration. corona virus positive, constructions shall
Indonesia’s economy in 2021. be temporarily suspended
Chances for economic growth for cities
BADAN PENGATUR JALAN TOL
or regions along the toll road corridors are For any business entities and construction
increasing. For example, development of workers affected by Covid-19, ITRA will
new industries is now available along the endeavor to minimize any impact. For
Trans-Java Toll Road in the Central and East such purpose, ITRA has proposed three
Java regions. strategies, namely maintaining the credit
collectibility level to lenders, maintaining
While in 2015-2019 the government the financial flows of business entities by
targeted 1,060 km of new toll roads, in speeding up the land bailout payment, and
seeking to adjust rates and concession

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