Trans-Papua Highway


The Trans-Papua Highway refers to 12 road segments, some under construction, across Papua and West Papua provinces of Indonesia, located in the island of New Guinea. The roads stretch from Sorong to Merauke with a total length of 4,325 kilometers. Construction on all the roads are predicted to finish in 2018, with 3,850 kilometers of roads have being completed in March 2017. The completed road segments include 884 out of Indonesia's 1,068 kilometer border road with Papua New Guinea. The remaining parts of the road, including 7,000 meters of bridges, are planned to be completed in 2017 and 2018, although not all of the road has been layered by asphalt.

Road segments

In Papua

There are 8 road segments in Papua Province with length 2345.40 kilometers which in end of October 2019 only 31.96 kilometers is not yet connected, 874,45 kilometers has been layered by asphalt and 1.465,46 kilometers has not been layered by asphalt:
There are 4 road segments in West Papua Province:
During the construction of the highway at least 20 construction workers in Nduga are killed by gunmen affiliated with Free Papua Movement. As of December 2018, the project is suspended temporarily for security concerns.