EXPO 2011 | Karasem

Part 1 The Infrastructures

1.1 Land transportation
Karasem have 79,176 km Asphalted road and 92,877 Km Dirt road as in 2009.

^ One air shot of Meriah-Kemayoran Interstate road.
Currently the primary land transportation in Karasem is using road. Currently the national roads in Karasem most have 1 lane, in 2021 the roads connecting the provinces will be 2 lanes. This project has now run 21% with most roads in the province Cikulon, Cibebek, West Jaya and Central Jaya have implemented these two lanes.
Every year, there was road maintenance to avoid accidents due to bad roads, especially during Lebaran flows where between cities where the street was crowded with travelers who will go to their homeland.

^One of the road maintenance in Karangutara District, Cibebek.
There are about 2719 km Road train in karasem. 68% was on the island of Jaya. Electric trains began to be applied in the White Rose City metropolitan area, Meriah and Cibebek Metropolitan Area, while trains between provinces still use diesel trains.
Double-rail train line will be applied throughout the province Cibebek in 2018 at which time it has been adequate for the path between Cidaun - Karangutara, Cibebek metropolitan area and some of Kota Baru - Bankalan.
The main public transport in urban areas using urban transport, buses and motorcycle taxis. To address congestion in major cities such as Cibebek, Jayakarta (worst) and Meriah, the Government has implemented some kind of new alternatives such as fast trains, busways and special lanes bike. Intercity bus transportation between provinces is most used in addition to the train.
Construction of toll roads/highways in Karasem has reached about 650 km. except in the province and the island cibebek victorious, at least has built toll roads in big cities like Ketapang, Melaka and Meriah. At this time, road operator to Karasem held 94% by PT Jalan Tol Karasem.

^Pondok Daun - Karangutara highway in Cidaun Timur Intersection


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Brilliant images! This is exactly the kind of thing we like to see at Expo - more detail about countries. Awesome!

Karasem one of the uniqest countries in simworld! )))

I agree with Hiigarar, a truly unique nation that matches no other CJ in this union!

Thanks for the comments Thomas, Hiigarar and Huston!

oh yeah you could also ask anything about Karasem here.

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1.2 Water and Air Transportation

Transportation between islands in Karasem using the ferry crossing. ferry crossing operators in Karasem held by PT. Angkutan Penyeberangan Air Karasem.

^One of the ferry crossing terminal on Kemanuk, Kab Sukamaju, Cibebek.

Today, some crossings have overcapacity so that the crossing between the main islands in the south Karasem of Cikulon, Cibebek until Jaya has built bridges between islands. Longest bridge built by the government Karasem is JABABEKA bridge in the province of West Jaya who has a temporary extension of approximately 12.7 km to facilitate crossing between Bangorai to Karasem, the two governments have worked together to build Karai Sealink in East Jaya province that extends 27 km in South China Sea.

^Night shot of Karai Sealink before it's opening.

Some bridges don't allow the heavy truck to use it. They must use ferry crossing instead. The motorbike that prohibited in highways, allowed in bridges using the motorcycle own lanes.

^JABABEKA bridge that connects Jaya island with Kasem island that passed by atleast 7600 cars and bikes everydays.

Currently, Karasem is planning an internation bridge that connects Meriah, Cikulon with Tanjung Pinang, in Indonesia. Meanwhile the Tanjung Pojok-Belawan (Cibebek Province with Ketapang Province) crossing that almost everyday very crowded is being planned to built another bridge that connect them.

^ One of the worst jam in Tanjung Pojok crossing

Karasem as one of the country that located in the busy shipping route so government has built some international transit seaport like in Meriah (Pelabuhan Laut Meriah), and Cijeruk ( Pelabuhan Transit Cijeruk). While there's many major industrial and passenger seaport the biggest one is Tanjung Pasir seaport in Kab Balongan, West Jaya Province. Currently the government planned to expand the Cibebek seaport to make it adequate with the city size.

^Tanjung Angin Seaport, Kab Sukamaju, Cibebek Province, one of the major port of the province besides Tanjung Daun and Pelabuhan Cibebek.

Karasem has atleast 5 International Airport and 12 Domestic Airport. The largest one is Jayakarta International in Jayakarta Special City State. Most of the international flight to the Karasem has to stop first in Cibebek international or Jayakarta International. Currently, the government consinder to built a new airport in Cibebek Province to replace the current Cibebek International airport in Kota Baru as it has its location near the centre of the newly formed Kota Baru.

^Jayakarta International Airport


^The newly planned airport in Cibebek

Wonderful, staning! i love it!

Super images, you've clearly put a lot of thought into this.

Thanks again!
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1.3 Public Services

To fulfill the health services to the public, the government set up public services in every subdistrict. The health service consist a small clinic that serve the community cheaply. However, if they can't cure them, they would sent the patients to the hospital of the district (Kabupaten). The district hospital has larger capacity and facility which adequate for the whole district. After the district hospital, there is main major hospital in each Province that has larger capacity.

^Cidaun district general hospital (north of the school, east of the police station)

Currently, education facility in Karasem still not enough especially in the rural area. Some of the school in the rural area still with inadequate facilities like dirt floored and bamboo walled. With this condition, government now try to reconstruct the bad education facility and make the inadequate better. Government make program that none of the education facility is inadequate in 2016.

As a developing country, Republic of Karasem currently has it's infrastructures not too good in the rural especially in the north Karasem which still less developed. The roads in some area currently not asphalted and muddy. In this case, the road management is the local district responsibility. The province government and central government just give the fund for repairing the road infrastructures. The failure district, will taking risk to have their fund diminishing. Government also make a program to make all public road in Karasem asphalted in 2025.

^With this road condition, the economy activity would be obstructed

Great description, and nice images too. Keep this up!

2.1 Local Foods and Drinks

Karasem has a lot of local foods and drinks. The food types are influenced by the foods in Malay, Sumatra and Java, like: Soto, Rendang, Bakso, Chicken Noodle, and much others. This was affected by the transmigration of some of Javanese in the 19 century by Dutch.
Here's some examples:

^Soto, a food influenced by Javanese food.


^Mie Ayam (Chicken Noodle)


^Tongseng, some kind of soup created with mutton.


^Rendang, a beef cooked by Sumatran ingredients.

As for local drink, Karasem has some of local cold drinks and some hot drinks. Much of them using palm sugar as the sweetener.
Some of the examples consist of:

^Cendol, the most popular cold drink in Karasem.


^Mixed fruit ice, consist of mixed types of fruits.


^Sekoteng, a hot drink.

the food look tasty and exotic! But the Sekoteng look toooo exotic for me

I love Karasem! )))

Cause it contain Bread?