Brantas River: One of most successful projects

Brantas River: One of most successful projects

The comprehensive development of Brantas River Basin is one of the most successful projects in Indonesia.

Due to the construction of Dams and Barrages, Surabaya has become safe against flood disasters. And the electricity generated by hydraulic power plants could have changed Surabaya into an industrial city.

At the same time, Brantas river basin has become a very good granary area with irrigation projects and a large investment of fertilizer, agricultural machinery and so on.

Japan has cooperated with the comprehensive development of Brantas River Basin for 40 years. This year is the 40 years' anniversary of the development.

Japan has long been the largest provider of official development (ODA) to Indonesia, and has contributed about 62 percent of the total amount of the bilateral official assistance between 1982 and 1999.

Major achievements by the Japanese ODA as follows; Semanggi Flyover, Railway Development in Jabotabek area, Way Sekampung irrigation infrastructure, comprehensive development of Brantas river basin, the emergency medical center of Dr Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital, improvement of higher education (Bandung Institute of Technology, Surabaya Polytechnics, etc).