Waskita's Jragung dam in Central Java nears completion, reservoir filling started in September
The multipurpose dam reports near-100 percent progress, with claimed benefits including irrigation for 4,528 hectares and raw water for about 720,000 people through 2040.
The Jragung multipurpose dam in Central Java, built by PT Waskita Karya, is nearly 100 percent complete and began initial reservoir impounding in early September, the company's operations director Ari Asmoko said Saturday. The company claims the dam will irrigate 4,528 hectares of rice fields across Demak and Grobogan, supply raw water to roughly 720,000 people through 2040, and host 1.4 MW of mini-hydro and 90.2 MW of floating solar potential.
The near-completion status is a counterpoint to Waskita's wider distress — the company has booked Rp2.87 trillion in losses through September while restructuring — showing its core water-resources construction line still delivers projects approaching handover. Handover brings its own workload: as-built documentation, commissioning records, acceptance minutes and maintenance-period obligations, a burst of project paperwork that lands in the current quarter. All progress and benefit figures are company-reported without independent verification, and no official handover date has been announced; the national dam programme remains active, with other contractors also carrying irrigation packages.