The world's longest bridge to be built in Indonesia's Sunda Strait will boost the agricultural sector, thus increasing the country's economy, Kompas daily quoted an official as saying here on Saturday.

"The Sunda Strait Bridge will facilitate sectors of agriculture, tourism and transportation to grow. Regional economy will be developed because economic result from the bridge will be bigger," said the Chairman of the National Horticulture Council Benny A Kusbini here on Friday.

Benny said that people should see the construction of the bridge without narrow mindedness, only seeing a huge budget of 117trillion rupiah (about 11.7 billion U.S. dollars) and quiet sea transportation.

"We can't rely on the sea for distribution any more because of obstacles it causes," said Benny, adding that orange from Medan of North Sumatra could never dominate the domestic market due to the high cost of distribution from the province to Java Island.