PHJD commenced in January 2019 and is expected to be completed in December 2022. PHJD is a scaled-up version of the pilot Provincial Road Improvement and Maintenance (PRIM) program. PRIM was initially designed and managed by SMEC under the Indonesia Infrastructure Initiative (IndII) from 2013–2017, before shifting management to the Indonesia Australia Partnership for Infrastructure (KIAT) from 2017 to date.
Building on PRIM, PHJD adopts an innovative performance-based approach whereby local governments are reimbursed for the cost of road maintenance if the completed work fulfills certain construction quality and governance criteria.