Spend 7.8 Billion Budget for Road Project on Makian Island Abandoned.
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Spend 7.8 Billion Budget for Road Project on Makian Island, South Halmahera Regency Abandoned. Friday, April 18
Through its official release to the media crew Aswinnews.com Wednesday, April 23, 2025.
Makean Island is an active volcanic area which is known to contain many rocks from eruptions and rocks on the surface of the ground,
According to the Former Head of Delta Engineering Ismit Idrus Menyampikan, the Regional Government Through the PU Service should have a mature plan and managerial and technical strategy to encourage investors to invest in Makian Island by committing continuously or sustainably by budgeting a budget for road construction on Makian Island so that contractors or service providers dare to invest.
Now there is a convenience in the project tender system that does not require the use of an open auction system
“This is clearly regulated in LKPP Regulation Number 9 of 2021, with an e-catalog system that is possible and has been implemented in several Vertical Agencies sourced from the APBN, but it seems that the Head of the PU Office seems to be Poor in Innovation and has no good intentions to build roads on Makian Island”.
According to him, the implementing contractor does not have a stone crusher so it must be brought in from outside Makian Island.
When viewed from the existing perspective, Makian Island mostly has quite good soil stability due to the rock formations of the volcano, so the stability of the soil on which the road will be built is classified as hard and dense, of course there is no longer any deformation and subsidence in the road body that is built, if the work is done properly, this will certainly reduce or reduce the cost of the foundation layer of the pavement above it.
He assessed the road project on Makian Island without proper planning results and perhaps only the results of topographic measurements without any calculation of the pavement thickness plan and type of pavement. The government should be more understanding and sensitive, not just a lot of imaging.
If the LHR is below 800 and the existing subgrade is already there, then a 20 cm thick aggregate foundation layer is sufficient to support traffic loads of up to 8 to 10 tons, but an aggregate layer without asphalt cover will result in a dusty road and disrupt public health, that’s why it’s important to coat it with chip sealing, a type of asphalt emulsion that is added with aggregate or stone chips on top and the results are similar to hotmix asphalt in general,
The project should not take up a lot of budget. This chip sealing is temporary and in the following year a Hotmix overlay layer can be done on top of it. The point is that with a limited budget, the community can enjoy decent infrastructure… not just any infrastructure, he said.
Red/Hal-Sel/Sukarsi.
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