Progressive Infrastructure Projects in Indonesia: Views on Potential Growing Geoforensic and Dispute Cases

Abstract

Recently, progressive government infrastructure projects on: roads and bridges, harbour, oil and gas, water and sanitation, railroad, electricity, city transportation and information technology have reached big records of government projects since the independence of Indonesia - A country with 17.504 islands and projected population in 2030 of 350 million. Every construction project carries its years of serviceability usually between 50 - 100 years. During and before that time, cost of risk due to the unfulfillment of engineering standard of design, construction, management, usage and maintenance can cause problems. Cases of past project failures that bring consequences in terms of cost, disfunction/failure and sometimes people's lives in some of the past projects are analyzed from the geoforensic point of view as cases to be avoided from the early beginning when the project was physically decided to be constructed in a certain geophysical area in specific parts of Indonesia.