Samarinda - The construction of the Balikpapan-Samarinda toll road as the first toll on Borneo island has reached 48% progress of the overall work. The toll road with a total length of 99.35 km is targeted to be completed at the end of 2018 later, and will be used in full by early 2019.

PT Jasamarga Balikpapan Samarinda (JBS) acting as the manager of this toll road continues to make efforts to accelerate development, this is done in order to achieve the target set.

"The massive acceleration and development step is evidenced by the relatively positive development progress. Until early February 2018, the construction of Balikpapan-Samarinda toll road has reached 48.48%, "said Arie Irianto, President Director of PT JBS.

Arie also explained there are still some problems that often he and his team find in the field. The main obstacle to this toll road construction is on land acquisition especially in Section 4, and some of the toll road toll roads in Section 2 through conservation forest or Bukit Suharto Forest Park (Tahura) are still managed or managed by residents.

As of February 1, 2018 yesterday, the progress of land acquisition for Balikpapan-Samarinda toll road has reached 90.67%. In view of these conditions, Arie and his side will continue to accelerate land acquisition for the first toll road construction on the island of Borneo by conducting negotiations and coordination to the relevant parties.

Later, the toll road will be operated early in 2019 will cut the time and cost of distribution of goods and basic necessities for the area of ??Balikpapan and Samarinda. Users of this toll can cut the journey as far as 34 km by just spending travel time between Balikpapan to Samarinda or vice versa in just 1 hour.