The construction of the Batutegi dam began in 1995. The costs used to build the Batutegi dam were taken from the central government's APBN funds. In addition, the central government also borrowed money from Japan Bank For International Cooperation to finance the construction of dams. The Indonesian government used the services of domestic and foreign consultants. There are American PRC Engineering, Sinotech from Taiwan, and Kadenus who are domestic consultants. During the development process in 1998.
Batutegi Dam has a storage capacity that is able to hold 9 million cubic meters of water. When the hydropower plant in the dam is capable of producing electricity with a total capacity of 125.2 gigawatts per year. Besides being used to run a hydropower plant, the Batutegi dam also serves as a supplier of water used by tens of thousands of hectares of rice fields that are crossed by rivers where the dam located in Batutegi Dam, which is the largest dam in Southeast Asia, is located in Tanggamus Regency, Lampung, which you can reach by vehicle in about 2 hours from the capital city of Bandar Lampung Province.
