Malacca Strait Bridge

Malacca Straits Bridge
Route information
Length:	48 km (30 mi)
Major junctions
Northeast end:	Telok Gong Masjid Tanah, Malacca Malaysia
Southwest end:	Makeruh Rupat Island, Riau Province Indonesia
Highway system
Highways in Malaysia Expressways Federal State

Malacca Strait Bridge Jambatan/Jembatan Selat Melaka/Malaka JSS, Jembatan Selmal
Carries	Motor vehicles
Crosses	Straits of Malacca
Locale	Dumai-Rupat Toll Road (Dupat), Indonesia Telok Gong-Masjid Tanah-Alor Gajah Expressway (TMA), Malaysia
Official name	Malacca Strait Bridge
Maintained by	--
Characteristics
Design	cable-stayed bridges (two) suspension bridge (one)
Total length	48 km
Width	--
Longest span	--
History
Designer	Government of Malaysia Government of Indonesia Straits of Malacca Partners Sdn Bhd (Malaysia)
Opened	17 August 2025

The Malacca Strait Bridge (Malay/Indonesian: Jambatan/Jembatan Selat Melaka/Malaka or JSM and Jembatan Selmal) is a proposed bridge that would connect Telok Gong, near Masjid Tanah, Malacca state in Peninsula Malaysia, Malaysia to Rupat Island and Dumai in Sumatra island, Indonesia. The project has been submitted for government approval, and is expected to take 10 years to complete. Once completed, the 48-km long bridge will be the longest sea-crossing bridge in the world. The project will have two cable-stayed bridges and one suspension bridge, both the longest in the world.

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Strait of Malacca connects Pacific Ocean (east) with Indian Ocean (west)

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The region around the Strait of Malacca

The construction of a bridge of this kind would have numerous implications, including for the management of ship movements through the Malacca Straits, one of the busiest shipping channels in the world.

Timeline

• In March 2013 during a visit to Germany and Japan, president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said that the construction of the planned Sunda Strait Bridge would have priority. He said that four years earlier he had turned down a request from Malaysia to support the construction of the Malacca Strait Bridge because the construction of such a bridge would facilitate the depletion of resources in Sumatra 'by Asia'.
• On 15 October 2013, the Malacca State Government revived the controversial 48 km-long Malacca-Dumai, Indonesia, bridge project across the Straits of Malacca, after a seven-year lull. The Exim Bank of China was reportedly prepared to fund up to 85% of the cost of the project (estimated at around US$14 billion) with the rest of the financing being provided from regional sovereign funds and private investors.