If Malaysia has the property icon, the Petronas Towers, then Indonesia will soon have it. Not to be outdone by the neighboring country-owned oil company, Petronas, PT Pertamina plans to build a tower as high as 80 floors. Tower at a cost of U.S. $ 850 million is certainly going to be the tallest building in the country in the next two years.
Construction of the tower will not be made at this time Pertamina headquarters, Jalan Medan Merdeka Timur. The building later called Pertamina Tower will be established in the Rasuna Said, South Jakarta.
The reason, the current location is not far from Gambir Station in the ring area of the State Palace. Inevitably, Pertamina must move to another location, let alone the building height will reach 400 meters. Another reason, ring 1 Palace is not allowed for business. Along the ring 1 is reserved for the state government office or agency.
Pertamina president director Karen Agustiawan Thursday revealed that Pertamina Tower will be a symbol of energy building in Indonesia. Later Pertamina subsidiaries are incorporated in the building were as high as 80 floors. "The president instructed the building should have been completed within 18 months," said Karen Agustiawan.
Actually, Pertamina building is not the only skyscraper that will be the pride of Indonesia. Much earlier, some companies have designed the tallest building in Indonesia. Even one of them will join the list of world's tallest building.
Here's a list of skyscrapers that will be built in the near future, in addition to Pertamina Tower:
Signature Tower
National employers, Tomy Winata mid-2012 and then make a new breakthrough. He will build the Signature Tower, 638 meters high building with 111 floors. This skyscraper will be office buildings and luxury hotels. Its location right in the middle of Sudirman Central Business District (SCBD) or the central business district area of approximately 45 acres located in the heart of Jakarta.
Artha Graha boss wants the Signature Tower began construction in 2012 and completed in five years. The development is estimated to cost U.S. $ 2 billion, or about Rp18, 5 billion. In building this prestigious project, Artha Graha Network through its subsidiary, PT Danayasa Arthatama Tbk, took MGM Hospitality in Las Vegas, USA.
The tower is designed consultants within and outside the country and world-class experience in the construction of mega-buildings high. Artha Graha took Smallwood, Reynolds, Stewart, Stewart & Associates, a leading architectural firm from Atlanta, USA.
Signature Tower building design is inspired by the natural beauty, cultural richness and diversity of Indonesia, as well as perkasanya flap its wings as a symbol of Garuda Indonesia.
If the reference list of the 100 tallest buildings in the world were issued Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA, Signature Tower will be the world's fifth tallest building. Of course it will beat the Petronas Tower in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, which only has a height of 452 meters with a total floor 88.
Telkom Tower
There is also a PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk will build a new building at a cost of around Rp1 trillion. The building was built by a subsidiary of Telkom, PT Duta Graha Sarana.
Telkom's tallest building, the plan consists of three buildings, with one of which has 50 floors. Two other buildings are old Telkom building will be renovated and a new building with a height of 50 floors below.
Telkom argued the new building will be more efficient. During this time, there are still many Telkom subsidiary which still occupies the building owned by other companies on a lease. Telkom expects construction of one tower completed in 2013 and the rest by 2014.
SOE Tower
Owned construction company, PT Adhi Karya Tbk also intends to build the tallest building in the SCBD. The building will be named the state's Tower has 100 floors, 11 floors lower than the signature Tower.
"For this project, we still hold on," said Adhi Karya Company Secretary, Kurnadi Gularso, Bloomberg, the headline, Thursday May 24.
Kurnadi reasoned, management's decision to delay construction of the skyscraper was not apart of the plan issuance of new shares (rights issue) company. Originally this corporate action will be implemented in the second half of 2012.
The proceeds from the rights issue is what will be used to partially finance the construction of state-owned Tower 100 floors.
According Kurnadi, step companies release new stocks heavily dependent on government approval to make additional capital through income (inbreng) of the assets of the government. Funds are targeted from the capital increase was about Rp500 billion.