A SPECIAL guest arrived at the Mertapada toll entrance gate, Cirebon, West Java, on Tuesday last week. The black Mercedes-Benz with the number plate “INDONESIA-1” approached the guard post. Slowly, the window was lowered. This toll road user was none other than President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, and he paid the toll fee himself. This signaled the opening of the Kanci-Pejagan toll road.

This 35-kilometer-long toll road section connects the