Jakarta, June 23 (Antara) - Monorail is one of the mess transportation
modes that can overcome traffic woes in big cities like Jakarta where
traffic congestion has become a main cause of headache for commuters.
Jakarta residents and other commuters from the capital city's satellite
towns of Bogor, Tangerang, Tangerang and Bekasi (Botakbek) have since
time immemorial fought traffic woes every day to reach their offices or
other destinations during the rush hours.
With a population of about 12 million, Jakarta also serves commuters
with poor conditions of public transportation means, forcing residents
to use their own cars or motorcycles that worsened further the traffic.
Jakarta Regional Police data showed that there are about 3.1 million
private cars and 8.2 million motorcycles roaming in the city every day.
The public transport condition is bad where about 72.34 percent of the
22,000 buses operating in the city are already old and no longer fit for
operations.
Data at the Jakarta Transportation Service showed that in 2002 about 61
percent of Jakarta's commuters still used public transport but the
figure dropped to 20 percent by 2010.
As an 'antidote' to the traffic headache, Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo,
or popularly known as Jokowi, is planning to develop a monorail system
as a traffic jam 'solver' as part of his on-going MRT project in the
city.
Now, the prototype of the monorail is on display at Monas. The
prototype is expected to explain to the people the future transportation
means that could overcome traffic jams. The public can visit the
exhibition at Monas for free from June 22 to July 14, 2013.
"I am very delighted with this exhibition which is initiated by PT
Jakarta Monorail, because it could popularize Jakarta's future monorail
mass transportation program which will be built soon," Governor Jokowi
said when officially opening the Monorail Exhibition at Monas Square on
Saturday.
In
the meantime, Business Development Director of Ortus Holdings Limited
(an investor in the project) Banyu Biru Djarot said the exhibition was
expected to inform to the Jakarta residents on the development of the
monorail project.
"This exhibition is the beginning of our objective to realize a
monorail development project in Jakarta. We want to transform this
program into a reality, not just a myth as it used to be," Banyu said.
He expressed his hope that the construction of monorail in Jakarta
would proceed smoothly so that its physical construction would start at
the end of the year and would fully be operated in 2016.
The exhibition at Monas is being organized as part of Jakarta's 486th anniversary.
"This exhibition is being held to coincide with the 486th anniversary
of Jakarta and to provide the opportunity for the Jakarta residents to
observe and to get informed of the monorail development project," he
said.
The exhibition, according to Banyu, is supported by three companies
namely ST Electronics, China CNR Corporation Limited and PT Indosat.
"ST Electronics is a Singapore company active in the traffic management
business and e-government solution. China CNR Corporation Limited is a
railway manufacturer while Indosat is one of Indonesia's biggest
telecommunications companies. The three firms have proven to be experts
in their respective field," Banyu said.
In
the meantime, Technical Director of PT Jakarta Monorail said the
exhibition aims to provide as much information as possible for the
public in Jakarta.
"We
hope that with the exhibition the people will see and know well the
monorail project so that they would not have doubts about the mass
transportation mode," said Bovanantoo.
In the meantime, Jakarta Deputy Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama hoped
that the construction of the monorail project would be carried out
immediately.
"The presence of mass transportation system in Jakarta has been badly
needed by the Jakarta residents. It is also expected to help traffic
woes in the capital city," said Basuki at the City Hall on Friday.
He said that the sooner the transportation system was built the sooner
it could be operated. "We predict the construction of a monorail project
in Jakarta will last for three years after which it could directly be
operated. I am sure that the construction of a monorail would be faster
than that of an MRT," Basuki said.
He
said that the Jakarta government fully supported the construction of
the monorail system which would be carried out by PT Jakarta Monorail
and PT Adhi Karya. "We support both companies in developing the monorail
project so that efforts to overcome traffic jam in Jakarta would be
made faster," Basuki said.
Last February, it was reported that a consortium of five state-owned
enterprises led by construction firm PT Adhi Karya was proposing to
build a monorail system.
The construction of the project will be carried out in three years by a
state-owned firm consortium, consisting of PT Adhi Karya, PT Jasa
Marga, PT Telkom, PT Lembaga Electronika Negara (LEN) and PT Industri
Kreta Api INKA
"If the construction permit of the project is
issued this month, we hope that the monorail system would be done soon
and would already be operated in 2015," State-owned Enterprise (SOE)
Minister Dahlan Iskan said last February.
According
to PT Adhi Karya which leads the consortium, the first phase of the
project would cover 39-km consisting of sections that stretched from
East Bakasi (West Java) to Cawang (East Jakarta), Cibubur (East
Jakarta) - Cawang and Cawang - Kuningan (South Jakarta).
Adhi
Karya President Director Kiswodarmawan said that his company would form
a consortium of state and regional government-owned companies to
implement the project in two phases.
The first phase was
expected to start this year and be finished by 2015, while the second
one would begin in 2015. "The first phase is estimated to cost Rp12 to
Rp13 trillion," he noted
"We also plan to invest in this project,
so the Jakarta administration does not need to think about its
funding," Kiswodarmawan said adding that an estimated Rp8 trillion was
needed to fund the project.
The
consortium will bankroll 30 percent of the project, while the remaining
70 percent will be financed through loans.***3***
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