KAJIAN STUDI DAMPAK PEMBANGUNAN JALAN TOL TRANS SUMATERA (JTTS) TERHADAP INFRASTUKTUR DAN LINGKUNGAN

Abstract

Development is a national objective that is going to be achieved by Indonesia as what was implied in The Opening Of The 1945 Constitution, fourth section. Development just not being done by only focusing on the people empowerment aspect, such as the educational sector, social sector, economic sector, political sector, and cultural sector, but also focuses on its infrastructural aspects such as road construction, bridge construction, market construction, and other public facilities. The highway construction projects should be increased in order to balance the people’s transmigration while they move from one place to another place, as what happened in Sumatra Island. Thus, it’s considered as one of the factors which support the highway construction project in Sumatra which is named Jalan Tol Trans Sumatera (JTTS). JTTS has approximately 3.000 km a long way, which connects the cities in Sumatra, specifically from Lampung to Aceh. JTTS has 24 line roads that connect the Sumatra Island with the eight-line priorities. Development in the infrastructural aspects which requires a wide-open space or a plain ground must consider the environmental aspect. Thus, the research is aimed to do a study of the impacts of the JTTS construction on infrastructure and environment aspects. Construction is must be done, but it should not give the nearby environment bad impacts, including the natural and man-made environment. In infrastructural point of view, the JTTS construction might increase the mobility of any vehicle and its efficiency to access the public facilities. While in the environment point of view, JTTS construction might reduce the drainage and crop fields. So, the concept of long-termed construction which considers the natural aspect is needed to maintain environmental preservation and human ecology.