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Fauzi Bowo Again States Aim to Proceed with Monorail
Jakarta Globe | June 22, 2010

Jakarta Jakarta's botched monorail project, pictured, has apparently had life breathed into it. (JG Photo/Afriadi Hikmal)
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padt
6:57am Jun 23, 2010

sms final update - the complete journey out of town and out to Serpon - about 35 k's - took 4 hours.

Next time some thugs rip off the public purse when road construction is undermined, I hope the judges take this into consideration when sentencing. Not only does corruption hold up development, it causes stress, social upheaval, holds back financial progress, hinders business transactions and keeps people away from their family and friends.

No one should be expected to spend 4 hours each day in a car simply travelling 35k's to and from work.Corruption, bad planning and abismal adherence to traffic regulations is making Jakarta a hell of a place to live.


Roland
11:25pm Jun 22, 2010

Passing these monorail skeletons almost every day! I liked the use of them when the Chandra - Bibit issues was at hands - protesters used the bare iron bars to represent jail cells and put a man size cut out of Anggodo in!

Wouldn't that be a great idea - put cutouts of every political figure ever in jail for embezzlement (or still in jail!) into these relics, so at least they get some good use....for years and years to come! Not enough pillars for all these disgraced "beacons" of Indonesian moral in highest circles - my estimate is that up to 4 would have space in a single one!


jetset24
9:26pm Jun 22, 2010

Ideas, ideas, talks, and more talks.....and No action. This has been going on in the past 7 years and still no sight of it. And now they want to be revive the monorail again. Whatever, it will never be laid out in my life time.

This is exactly the kind of thinking in the political arena that is beyond belief !!!


padt
7:23pm Jun 22, 2010

sms update. My friend has now been in the car for 2.5 hours and traveled 2 k's from his office in Jl. Fachrudin Raya ,Jakarta Pusat heading for Tangerang. Reason? There is evidently a crash scene on the Tangerang toll way and traffic heading that way can't get out of the city.

I think you can safely say that within ten years - a conservative guess - if something original is not done, this city will be unworkable.

Would the authorities ever consider the idea of (Asian 'face' aside) getting help and advice from outside the country? And I don't mean another fact finding trip to Monaco to study public transport. Monaco doesn't have public transport - just plush hotels and casinos. Mmmmm, I wonder why they went there?

peterR
6:56pm Jun 22, 2010

Oh for gods sake. The man is an imbecile.

The great white elephant that is the capital’s controversial monorail project is back on track, Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo said on Tuesday.

“It has been decided that the monorail project will carry on immediately after the discussions on the compensation with the private sector is completed,” Fauzi said during a meeting with the Jakarta Legislative Council (DPRD).

The state Development Finance Comptroller (BPKP), which was expected to deliver the results of its two-year probe into the so-far disastrous project in April, is expected to announce that the city owes PT Jakarta Monorail money.

Jakarta Monorail officially abandoned the project in 2008 after financial problems and legal disputes.

Fauzi has stated a number of times previously that he wanted to continue the construction of the monorail project pending the result of the BPKP audit, which is expected by the end of the month.

Pylons half constructed in 2004 that still line Jalan Rasuna Said and Jalan Asia-Afrika in South Jakarta bear testament to previous mismanagement surrounding the project.

The monorail was approved in 2003. Under the plan, privately owned PT Jakarta Monorail was to build two lines — the first, a loop line passing by Semanggi, Casablanca, Kuningan, Sudirman, Karet and back to Semanggi. The second would go through Kampung Melayu, Casablanca, Karet, Tanah Abang, Roxy and Mall Taman Anggrek.

According to the state secretary, Jakarta Monorail had asked for Rp 600 billion ($65 million) to cover its losses, but BPKP claims the government owes the company just Rp 200 billion.

Besides the monorail project, Fauzi also mentioned the development of other transportation modes such as intercity railways that will be connected to other public transportation and the opening of two busway corridors, namely Corridor IX connecting Pinang Ranti in East Jakarta and Pluit in North Jakarta and Corridor X connecting Cililitan in East Jakarta and Priok in North Jakarta by the end of this year.