Government Reviews Fate of Indonesia's Longest Toll Road Project, Getaci

The fate of the Gedebage-Tasikmalaya-Cilacap (Getaci) toll road project, the longest in Indonesia, remains uncertain. The Ministry of Public Works (PU) stated that the project, which is listed as a National Strategic Project (PSN), is still under review with the Ministry of Finance, and the evaluation is expected to continue until next year.

Director of Toll Roads at the Ministry of PU, Dedy Gunawan, said the government is currently rearranging the Getaci project scheme after it failed to attract investors. “Getaci is being reviewed with the Ministry of Finance, we are restructuring the project,” Dedy said when met at the Parliament Complex in Jakarta on Thursday (9/7/2026).

When asked how long the review process would take, Dedy estimated the evaluation could take about a year. “If I’m not mistaken, it will take a year, meaning until next year. We are reviewing it because previously there were no interested parties, so we are reviewing it,” he said.

Dedy explained that the evaluation was carried out after the Getaci project, which was initially undertaken under an unsolicited scheme, experienced a contract termination. The project was subsequently re-tendered but still failed to attract investor interest. “The temporary review shows that after the unsolicited contract was terminated, we re-tendered it and there was no interest. Perhaps because of the traffic, maybe the review shows it did not match the initial predictions. That is why we are restructuring whether to bundle or unbundle it, and to what extent. Previously we tried unbundling it up to Tasikmalaya, and later we might check again whether it is still viable or not, because there was the Covid-19 case and the increase in fuel prices. That certainly has an effect,” he explained.

According to Dedy, the government is still recalculating the most feasible project scheme, including evaluating whether to bundle the project again or split it into sections to make it more attractive to businesses. When asked to confirm whether the review process would last until July 2027, Dedy could not provide detailed certainty but indicated that the evaluation process would indeed be quite lengthy. “It looks that way, we’ll see,” he said.

For information, the Getaci Toll Road is a project with a total length of 206.65 kilometres designed to cross two provinces, namely West Java for 171.40 kilometres and Central Java for 35.25 kilometres. The project is listed as a National Strategic Project in Presidential Regulation Number 109 of 2020 concerning the Acceleration of the Implementation of National Strategic Projects. Overall, the Getaci Toll Road is divided into four sections. Section 1, Junction Gedebage-North Garut, has a length of 45.20 kilometres; Section 2, North Garut-Tasikmalaya, is 50.32 kilometres long; Section 3, Tasikmalaya-Patimuan, is 76.78 kilometres long; and Section 4, Patimuan-Cilacap, is 34.35 kilometres long.