JAKARTA's long-awaited Soekarno-Hatta Airport rail link project has secured a $US 53.3m syndicated loan for the purchase of 10 trains, state-owned infrastructure financing firm, Sarana Multi Infrastruktur (SMI), has confirmed.
INDONESIA's president Mr Joko Widodo attended a groundbreaking ceremony in the west Javan town of Walini on January 21 to mark the start of construction of the country's first high-speed railway linking Jakarta with Bandung.
A new elevated infrastructure solution for metros is touted as an affordable and sustainable way to bring much-needed public transport to some of the world's worst-served cities. Mercury Rail gave Kevin Smith an exclusive insight into its new Low Cost Sustainable Transport System (LCSTS).
INDONESIAN Railways (PT KAI) and its Railink subsidiary have secured syndicated loans worth a total of Rs 2 trillion ($US 155m) to fund construction of a rail link between central Jakarta and Soekarno-Hatta International Airport.
MRT Jakarta has awarded Sumitomo Corporation and Nippon Sharyo a contract worth around Yen 13bn ($US 1bn) to supply 16 trains for Indonesia's first metro line.
FOUR Indonesian banks have agreed to lend the country's national railway PT Kereta Api Rupiahs 2.38 trillion ($US 195.5m) to help increase capacity on the Jabodetabek commuter rail network serving Jakarta and neighbouring cities.
Operations will begin next month on the enhanced 727km corridor from Jakarta to Surabaya following the completion of a 465.5km track-doubling project.
A variety of transit projects are proposed for the Jakarta metropolitan area and other cities in Indonesia which will aid the fight against traffic congestion while improving cross-city connectivity. Kevin Smith examines the schemes.
The Indonesian government is pushing ahead with a $US 468bn infrastructure investment plan intended to facilitate the country's rise to the world's top economic table. However, the suitability of the private investment model touted by the government to deliver these projects remains in question, as Kevin Smith discovered during a visit to Java.
THE governor of Jakarta, Mr Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, officiated at Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) ground breaking ceremony on October 10 to mark the start of construction of the first metro line in the Indonesian capital.