Trans-Java Toll Road: Knitting Barrier-Free Connectivity

The presence of toll roads, especially JTTS, should be part of the solution to overcome the high cost of logistics. Therefore, an institutional framework is needed to support the efficiency of toll road management.

Kompas/Heru Sri Kumoro

The landscape of the Gempol-Pandaan toll road at the Gempol interchange around KM 775, Pasuruan, East Java, with Mount Penanggungan in the background, Wednesday (15/4/2021).

Several centuries ago, in 1808 to be exact, Herman Willem Daendels, the governor-general of the Dutch East Indies, built a land connectivity infrastructure linking the western with the eastern tip of Java Island as part of the efforts to improve trade (commodity transportation), as well as the military mobility.

This land connectivity infrastructure was known as Jalan Raya Pos [Great Post Road] spanning from Anyer in Banten to Panarukan in East Java.