Welcome Guest   |  Login   |   Signup
JG Logo
Sat, May 26, 2012
Archive Search

Pledging No Monorail-Like Disaster, Jakarta Starts MRT Tender Process
Dofa Fasila | October 11, 2011

Share This Page
0
12
0
0
Share with google+ :


Post a comment
Please login to post comment

Comments

Be the first to write your opinion!

After its disastrous flirtation with a monorail, Jakarta is now searching for suitors to build a mass rapid transit rail line, with tender to open in November and followed by a tentative construction start date of June 2012.

The result of a pre-tender qualification check will be announced in October, according to MRT Jakarta, the city-owned company running the project. Qualifying consortia will then be invited to bid in a tender process to open in November and finish in April.

MRT Jakarta chief executive Tribudi Rahardjo said he is certain construction of the MRT will begin in mid-June.

“I want to emphasize that construction of the MRT will not be halted or deferred. This is because everything that is required to be in place is already prepared,” Tribudi said on Monday.

“The MRT project is completely unrelated to the monorail project. The fate of the monorail is irrelevant to the MRT.”

Conscious of Jakartans’ skepticism that they will ever see their city’s transportation system catch up with other metropolises in the region, Tribudi said the pre-qualification process was a sign that progress was being made.

He said the tender committee, which is composed of MRT Jakarta, the provincial government and the Transportation Ministry, already had a list of potential contractors but will not disclose their name soon.

Because of loan conditions placed by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) on the project, the lead organization in all consortia must be a Japanese company, Tribudi said.

He added that with the exception of two or three private companies, most of the Indonesian partners entering ventures with Japanese companies in the pre-qualification process were state-owned enterprises.

“There are some private, non-state-owned companies, but only a couple,” Tribudi said.

The first MRT railtrack corridor is targeted to be in operation by the end of 2016. A second stage then will be build to extend the line northward into Kota, and it is expected to begin running in 2018.

A pre-feasibility study is in progress for an East-West Corridor, which is targeted to operate at around 2024, according to MRT Jakarta.

Further Coverage

Editorial > A10