History Suramadu Bridge Construction

For those of you who like to travel a lot and want to visit the province of Madura is now no need to worry anymore and confused about the means of transport and the route that must be traveled. As we all know now there is the longest bridge linking Surabaya to Madura.

The bridge was built by the government with the aim to facilitate the journey and bring the vital access between the two provinces. It is also intended to establish and maintain unity among the provinces since Indonesia consists of several islands widespread making it sometimes difficult to integrate.

Suramadu bridge has a length of up to 5.4 kilometers and standing strong and majestic and become generators of change for Madura.

Beginning of the precipitating idea to make this bridge is in 1960 where Prof. Dr Sediyatmo proposed the idea of a direct link between the islands of Java and Sumatra. At that time he met with a good idea and begin reconstruction of the bridge made by the Bandung Institute of Technology.

Ideas and concepts of making bridges are then submitted to the president who was then occupied by Suharto June 1986. In the same year, the Indonesian government at Bappenas started proposed a collaboration with a Japanese trading company to establish a cooperation project between the two countries. melihan ideas that owned Indonesia, the Japanese delegation responded with a positive response and received the cooperation project.

Indonesia became very eager to immediately realize the project of building a bridge between the two islands and then Indonesia has made various preparations, including the concepts of Prof. Dr Sediyatmo together with the Head of Application Technology Assessment which was then occupied by BJ. Habibie.