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Airport Rail Lines Ready to Roll in 2013: Minister
January 26, 2012

Passengers at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport. (Antara Photo/Rosa Panggabean) Passengers at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport. (Antara Photo/Rosa Panggabean)
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cowherd
8:18pm Jan 28, 2012

By connecting to Tangerang before heading north to the airport, this plan will benefit a much larger portion of the population, not just the 5-10% consumer class catching flights in and out of Jakarta. Bravo!

The higher level of service demanded by consumer class passengers will benefit all riders everyday. This is an excellent example of the natural extension of benefits to all citizens when the urge to segregate neighborhoods and services can be resisted.

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The government is optimistic that commuter lines from Jakarta to Soekarno-Hatta International Airport will start running next year.

“We’re still finishing the work, and they [the commuter lines] are expected to be operational in 2013,” Transportation Deputy Minister Bambang Susantono said on Wednesday at a seminar at the University of Indonesia.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono issued a regulation last November that allowed state-owned railway operator Kereta Api Indonesia to build the lines after years of delay.

One line will link Manggarai in South Jakarta to Tangerang in Banten province before heading north to the airport. The other line will stretch from Manggarai through Pluit in North Jakarta before going west to the airport.

Soekarno-Hatta, the country’s biggest airport, had 43 million air passengers last year.

Bambang said the first railway line would be a commuter route that used the existing track from Manggarai to Tangerang. KAI will build six kilometers of track northbound to the airport, with a total estimated investment of Rp 2.25 trillion ($252 million).

The second route will cost an estimated Rp 10 trillion. The cost is higher because the route will be an elevated line and will be offered to private investors through a public-private partnership scheme, Bambang said.

He said the government would provide Rp 1.5 trillion to buy land for the project and Rp 1.7 trillion to upgrade the existing rail line between Manggarai and Angke in North Jakarta. Private investors are expected to provide the rest of the project cost.

Sarana Multi Infrastruktur, the state arm for infrastructure financing, will oversee consulting companies to help prepare for the project.

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