The 16th JOINT WORKSHOP HELD IN JAKARTA, BUTON ISLAND,BALI, Indonesia
28th February to 3rd March, 2016
The 16th Joint Workshop for the technology and policy research of Road and Transport washeld in Jakarta, Buton island, Bali, Indonesia by NILIM, Japan and IRE, Indonesia* withsister organizations on 28th February to 3rd March 2016.
(*) IRE, Indonesia : Institute of Road Engineering, Indonesia
The activities of 16th Joint Workshop are as follows;
1) Open seminar on regional development : Road Side Station
2) Discussion and Site visit on Michinoeki3) Discussion on Traffic Data Collection
4) Discussion and Site visit on pavement (AsButon Research Project)
5) Discussion and Site visit on Tunnel

Open seminar

Discussion on Michinoeki

Site Visit on AsButon Research project

Member of Tunnel Research1. Contents・Open seminar on regional development : Road Side Station
The open seminar on regional development was held in Jakarta, Indonesia jointly by
National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management (NILIM), Public Works ResearchInstitute (PWRI), Institute of Road Engineering (IRE) and Japan Society of Civil Engineers(JSCE) on 29th February 2016. More than 120 participants including the executive staff ofMinistry of Public Works and Housing, researchers of IRE, staff of Ministry of Tourism, staffof local government and academician etc. attended the seminar.
In the keynote lecture session, Dr. Achmad Hermanto Dardak, Head of Infrastructure
Regional Board, gave a lecture about issue of gap between urban area and rural area inIndonesia and solutions taken by Ministry of Public Works and Housing. In addition, heintroduced the new effort, "Smart Travelers Plaza Plan”, which was formed with reference toMichinoeki (Road Side Station in Japan).
Dr. Masahide ITO, Director of Road Traffic Department of NILIM, explained about summaryof Japan's Michinoeki system. In the lecture, the results of analysis for successful cases ofJapan's Michinoeki and the point of success obtained from the results were shown.

Open seminar on "Regional Development"

・Discussion and Site visit to the candidate site of Smart Travelers Plaza
On the day following the open seminar, the participants conducted site visit to the candidate
site of Smart Travelers Plaza at Bali. Local media reported about site visit and other issues.
Not only the central government but also the local government has high expectation of theplan in Indonesia. The Workshop including local government officials was also held andopinions about Michinoeki were exchanged. IRE mainly asked NILIM about management
method of Michinoeki.
In continuation, based on road map of research cooperation, they confirmed each other'sresearch activity and discussed aim of future activity. In the discussion, IRE suggested thatIRE would like to hold the Workshop and site visit in regard to Michinoeki which has beenplanned in Java.

Site Visit to the condidate site

Discussion of Michinoekiof Smart Travelers plaza・Discussion on Traffic Data Collection
In the Workshop at Jakarta on 29th February 2016, they discussed progress of research andfuture research plan. In the discussion, the IRE researchers reported that they made aguideline for installation of the equipment for observing images of traffic.

・Discussion and Site visit for pavement (AsButon Research Project)
IRE member and Japanese member discussed project road map for the next three years.
Some interesting research topics were proposed by both members and selected some themesthat are considered useful in Indonesia and Japan. As a result of discussion, Japanese
member will provide some technical information to IRE regarding the modified asphalt, FWD
calibration and so on.
From the next day, both members moved to Buton Island and visited AsButon center,
Kabungka area and Lawele area as site visit. At that time, AsButon center was underconstruction but some of equipment and lecture rooms were used already. Japanese member
advised that it would be better to use this center for quality control of AsButon material. Bothsides confirmed that difference in characteristics of natural asphalt in both areas.

Discussion on AsButon Research Project

Member of AsButon Research Project

AsButon Center in Indonesia

SiteVisit to Lawele Area

・Discussion and Site visit on Tunnel
PWRI and IRE have been creating "the guideline for auxiliary method of tunnel construction
at mountain area". In this workshop, the discussion on content confirmation and correction ofdraft guideline were conducted.
Also, PWRI introduced “Overview of shield tunnel technology in Japan" because IRE isinterested in impact on the surrounding area at the time of using construction method ofshield tunnel. They conducted exchanging their opinions and site visit for shield tunnel
technology. In site visit session, they visited construction site which was carried out by
Japanese private company in Indonesia, and IRE was strongly interested in technology forshield tunnel of Japan.

Discussion for Tunnel Research

Site Visit to Construction Siteof Japanese private company

2. Reference (History of the Cooperation)
The National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management (NILIM) and the Instituteof Road Engineering (IRE) renewed cooperation arrangement in Indonesia, February 2014.
Under this agreement, NILIM and IRE have been continually sharing research information
by jointly holding technical seminars and exchanging researchers to strengthen links between
both research institutes and to form international human networks, thereby to contribute thegrowth of Indonesia.
2009.06

Pre-meeting in Jakarta and Bandung2009.11

Tsukuba, Memorandum of Cooperation agreed

2010.03

Bandung, (1st Joint Workshop for targeting the themes)

2010.06

Tsukuba, joint meeting for Bali coming symposium2010.10

International Symposium in Bali
(2nd Joint Workshop to declare the strategy for cooperative researches)

2011.01

Jakarta, (3rd Joint Workshop to make the Road maps(1) )2011.06

Sulawesi,(4th Joint Workshop to make the Road maps(2) and site observation

2011.09

Technical Tour in Japan for modernizing experimental Equipment andFacilities of RDCRB (IRE)2011.10

Lombok, (5th Joint Workshop / Bilateral Seminar)

2012.03

Jakarta and Bandung,(6th Joint Workshop including River and Water Resource issue)

2012.06

Batam, (7th Joint Workshop (Bridge/ Tunnel) and Open Seminar(Long Span Bridge and Tunnel Technology))

2012.06

Trilateral Workshop for the Interim Report in Tsukuba

2013.01

Jakarta, (8th Joint Workshop (Road Environment/ IPT/ Traffic
Safety/ Pavement/ Tunnel)

2013.08

Padalarang-Bandung, (9th Joint Workshop (IPT/ Traffic Safety/Pavement/ Tunnel))2013.11

Tokyo, (10th Joint Workshop (Tunnel/ Pavement))

2014.02

Jakarta, Labuan Bajo and Denpasar,(Cooperation Arrangement renewed, 11th Joint Workshop (Road Side
Station of Corridor 5/ Road Environment/ IPT/ Tunnel/ Pavement)

2014.03

Tsukuba, (12th Joint Workshop (Michinoeki/ Pavement))

2014.10

Jakarta, (13th Joint Workshop (Tunnel))

2014.11

Bali, Flores and Buton, (14th Joint Workshop (Road environment/ RoadSide Station/ AsButon)

2016.02

Tsukuba, (15th Joint Workshop and Site visit (Pavement/ AsButon/ RoadSide Station)