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Belawan–Medan–Tanjung Morawa Toll Road

road in Indonesia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ4884279 ↗
Source-derived summary

Belawan–Medan–Tanjung Morawa Toll Road or Belmera Toll Road is a controlled-access toll road in the east part of Medan in Indonesia that connects Belawan to Tanjung Morawa. Completed on December 15, 1986 and operated by PT Jasa Marga, this is the first toll road in Indonesia outside Java.

History

The toll road, which connects Port of Belawan and Tanjung Morawa in Deli Serdang Regency was built by contractors Takenaka Nippon Hutama and Pacific Consultant International and inaugurated in December 15, 1986, becoming the first toll road to be built in Sumatra. The toll road has a length of 34 km (21 mi) with 2 lanes in each direction.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Belawan–Medan–Tanjung Morawa Toll Road” as road in Indonesia. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1986—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Belawan, Medan and Tanjung can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as road in Indonesia. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “Belawan–Medan–Tanjung Morawa Toll Road” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.