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Semarang–Solo Toll Road Semarang–Solo Toll Road is a part of Trans-Java toll road that connects Semarang, capital city of Central Java and Surakarta (Solo) via Salatiga in Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast ...

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Kertosono–Mojokerto Toll Road Kertosono–Mojokerto toll road is a toll road on the island of Java, Indonesia. It is located in East Java province. It is part of Trans-Java toll road and runs from Kertosono to Mojokerto. The first phase of this toll road connecting Jomb ...

. This toll road has a total length of 177.12 km comprise two segments, segment ''Solo–Ngawi'' and segment ''Ngawi–Kertosono''. The road passes through eight regions:

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Jombang Regency Jombang Regency ( id, Kabupaten Jombang; jv, ꦏꦧꦸꦥꦠꦺꦤ꧀ꦗꦺꦴꦩ꧀ꦧꦁ) is a regency of East Java, Indonesia, situated to the southwest of Surabaya. The capital of the regency is the town of Jombang. The regency has an area ...

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. When commencing operation, Solo–Kertosono Toll Road, known as Soker Toll Road. The toll road is the longest toll road in Indonesia.

History

Administratively, Soker Toll Road with a total length of 177.12 km comprise two segments, segment Solo–Mantingan–Ngawi and segment Ngawi–Kertosono. The length of Solo–Mantingan–Ngawi toll road is 90.1 kilometer, while the length of Ngawi–Kertosono is 87.02 kilometer. Hence, in the beginning, Soker Toll Road was designed as two separate toll roads. However, during its tender process, no investors showed interest in bidding these two toll roads except one bidder, which is PT

Thiess Contractors Indonesia PT Thiess Contractors Indonesia is a subsidiary of Thiess Pty Ltd, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of CIMIC Group. History Thiess originally commenced operations in Indonesia in 1972 when it acquired a 50% in Petrosea. After Thiess was taken ...

. On June 28, 2011, Toll Road Concession Agreement (PPJT) amendment has been signed in Jakarta. With this concession agreement, segment Solo-Mantingan-Ngawi will be under PT Solo–Ngawi Jaya, while segment Ngawi-Kertosono will be under PT Ngawi–Kertosono Jaya. Both of this companies are subsidiaries of PT

. Since both of toll road concessions have been awarded to the same company, these two toll roads usually are referred as Solo–Kertosono Toll Road, or Soker Toll Road. Construction started in 2012 and the company aimed to finish the project in 2014, but the company was only able to acquire 80 percent of the needed land. The construction has been left idle due to financing and land clearing difficulties. Then State-run toll road operator Jasa Marga and state-owned construction company Waskita Karya taken over from Thiess Contractors in 2015, with about Rp 439 billion (US$34.15 million). Jasa Marga now owns 60 percent of the shares in the project, while Waskita Karya owns the remaining 40 percent.

Segments

Soker Toll Road with a total length of 177.12 km comprise two segments,

Solo–Ngawi

This 90 km length segment namely Phase I, the SS Ngawi-Klitik (Ngawi) segment as long as 4 km has been operating since March 30, 2018, Phase II Kartasura-Sragen was inaugurated on July 15, 2018, and Phase III Sragen-Ngawi was inaugurated on November 28. The Sragen- Ngawi Toll Road is equipped with eight toll gates, namely GT Colomadu, GT Adi Airport, GT Ngemplak, GT Gondangrejo, GT Karanganyar, GT Sragen, East Sragen GT, and GT Ngawi (Ngawi City).

Ngawi–Kertosono

This segment is 87.12 km in length with 2 sections. The 52-kilometer (km)-long section Ngawi-Wilangan was inaugurated in March 2018, which has four toll gates at Ngawi, Madiun, Mejayan, and Wilangan. The remaining part was inaugurated on 20 December 2018.

Exits

Solo-Ngawi
Ngawi-Kertosono

References

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