Sultan rejects any plan to build toll road in Yogyakarta

“No toll road in Yogyakarta. It is not that it is disallowed but the Central Government also agrees (that Yogyakarta does not need toll road),” the Sultan said at a meeting with Gunung Kidul regent and a group of local people here on Thursday.

He said in 2019 a new international airport will be operational in Kulon Progo. The access road would be wide a four lane road but not toll road.

He said he hoped that the Gunung Kidul district administration would soon hand over a program for development of infrastructure after the completion of the Kulon Progo airport.

“I will do the negotiations with the central government,” he said.

Gunung Kidul Regent Badingah said more tourists are expected to visit the region with the construction of the new airport in Kulon Progo.

He called for the peoples support to accelerate the completion of the project.(*)