Indonesia and Malaysia plan to build a 38-km bridge that connects the two countries crossing the border near Sumatra island, an official said Monday.
The bridge will link Rupat island in the Indonesian province of Riau and Malaysia`s Port Dickson, said Riau Governor Rusli Zainal.
According to him, the Malaysian government has appealed local entrepreneurs to run the project, while from the Indonesian side Vice President Jusuf Kalla has given a nod to the mega project.
"This has been included in our macro planning but we haven`t set a timetable for the starting of the project," he was quoted by leading news website Detikcom as saying.
"The plan should be discussed further by the central government because concerns with relations between two countries," he added.
Source: english.people.com (4 September 2007)