In accordance with clause III.A.1(a) of Schedule 2 of the AIPRD-L002 loan agreement for Eastern Indonesia National Road Improvement Project (EINRIP), this is the monthly Project Progress Report (PPR) for December 2011.

Loan Agreement

The original loan closing date of 1 June 2011 has been extended to 31 March 2013 and amendment to the Loan Agreement was signed on 9 June 2011.

Environmental Studies

From the 20 packages now included under EINRIP:

• Environmental studies were not required for 6 packages.
• Environmental studies (UKL/UPL) for 11 packages have been completed.
• AMDAL for ESS-04, ESS-05 and ESS-06 is complete, approval granted by Governor of South Sulawesi.

Land Acquisition

Of the 20 packages now included under EINRIP:

• There was no land acquisition required for 2 packages.
• Land acquisition for 16 packages is complete.
• Compensation payments for land acquisition in packages ESS-05 & ESS-06 (LG Bulukumba and Sinjai in South Sulawesi) commenced in late 2011 and are ongoing, with complete evidence to be completed in January 2012.

Procurement of Civil Works

• Procurement completed for 18 packages and contracts already commenced construction.
• Procurement process for two packages ESS-05 and ESS-06 commenced in July 2011.
• Bids opening held in Makassar on 22-Nov 2011. 

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As part of the EINRIP Loan Agreement, a Project Management Manual was prepared and issued in September 2008 that laid down the procedures for all activities of project implementation. After commencement of construction of EINRIP packages in February 2009, about 18 packages were already under construction by middle of 2011. The first 18 months of implementation made it necessary to update some of the procedures of the PMM and also to make them more consistent with revised regulations of DGH and revised organisational structure of implementation.

The revision to the PMM commenced in March 2010 by three focus groups, for reviewing the PMM sections on implementation, procurement, and financial management. The revision of PMM was completed by early January 2011, however, due to organisation changes and issue of new regulations for procurement replacing Keppres 80/2003, it was decided that the PMM will need to be further modified to consider the changed management structure.

Revision 1 to PMM was submitted to AusAID in June 2011 and formal NOL from AusAID was issued on 13 July 2011. The Revision 1 to PMM was approved by the Director General (DGH) in October 2011 and the socialisation program for distribution of PMM and its introduction to DGH and other stakeholders was conducted through a 2-day workshop held in Denpasar (15-16 Dec 2011) and in Makassar (19-20 Dec 2011).

The workshop was attended by:

• Director of Planning
• Director of Implementation Affairs of Region II (Denpasar)
• Director of Implementation Affairs of Region III (Makassar)
• Head of Sub-directorate for Financing and Foreign Cooperation, Bipram
• Head of Sub-directorate of Implementation for Region II-C, II-D and III-B.
• Project Management Unit EINRIP
• PMSC Consultant
• Regional Supervision Consultants including Chief Supervision Engineers, Site Supervision Engineers and some RSC Central team members
• Representatives of Contractors (in Makassar only)

General program of Workshops was:

See some photos of the Workshops here....

In accordance with clause III.A.1(a) of Schedule 2 of the AIPRD-L002 loan agreement for Eastern Indonesia National Road Improvement Project (EINRIP), this is the monthly Project Progress Report (PPR) for November 2011.

Loan Agreement

The original loan closing date of 1 June 2011 has now been extended to 31 March 2013 and amendment to the Loan Agreement was signed on 9 June 2011.

Environmental Studies

From the 20 packages now included under EINRIP:

• Environmental studies were not required for 6 packages.
• Environmental studies (UKL/UPL) for 11 packages have been completed.
• AMDAL for ESS-04, ESS-05 and ESS-06 is complete, approval granted by Governor of South Sulawesi.

Land Acquisition

Of the 20 packages now included under EINRIP:

• There was no land acquisition required for 2 packages.
• Land acquisition for 16 packages is complete.
• Budget has been allocated in revised APBN 2011 for land acquisition for packages ESS-05 & ESS-06 (Bulukumba and Sinjai in South Sulawesi) and compensation process is underway.

Procurement of Civil Works

• Procurement completed for 18 packages and contracts already commenced construction.
• Procurement process for two packages ESS-05 and ESS-06 commenced in July 2011.
• The AusAID NOL to the Addendum No. 2 to the bidding documents was issued on 1 November 2011.
• Bid opening took place on 22 November 2011, and bids are under review presently.

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The original loan closing date of 1 June 2011 has now been extended to 31 March 2013 and amendment to the Loan Agreement was signed on 9 June 2011. The loan amendment also covers the re-allocation of funds within the existing categories, while the total loan amount (A$300 million) remains unchanged

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