The high-speed rail, which will shortly begin service between Jakarta and Bandung, would bolster both the flow of people and commodities and boost Indonesia’s competitiveness, according to President Joko Widodo of Indonesia.
The Indonesian President stated in statements to the local media that the high-speed train will reduce the current three-hour travel time to about 40 minutes and connect Bandung, a heavily populated city in the West Java Province, with Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, via the Chinese Belt and Infrastructure Road.
After the Grand Grand Summit of the Group of Twenty next month, Widodo will invite his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to inaugurate the Chinese-made highway, according to the American “The Diploma” patrol report, which focuses on Asian affairs. Widodo will explain that the matter has not yet been decided.
The report pointed out that the train cars were designed and built by the Chinese railway company, and the contract was granted at a value of $ 364.
5 million in 2017, the year the 142-mile line is established. 3 kilometres, at a total cost of $7. 8 billion dollars, which is a joint venture between an Indonesian consortium that includes four state -owned companies and a company tray.
He pointed out that the trains were specially modified to adapt to the tropical climate in Indonesia, and it is equipped with a good security system that has the ability to track earthquakes, floods and other emergency conditions, and the length of the train consisting of eight vehicles is 208. nine metres.
According to the newspaper, the railway contract was finalised in October 2015 after Indonesia chose China over Japan in a competitive contest. It was funded to a 75 percent degree by a loan from the Chinese Development Bank, with the remaining 25 percent coming from a private consortium.
The project, he noted, is a piece of a 750-kilometer high-speed train that travels through four provinces on the main island of Java before terminating in Surabaya, the second-largest city in the nation.
As part of the city’s efforts to ease traffic congestion, the Jakarta subway, a project supported by Japan, was reportedly opened in 2019. According to the report, the second phase of the project will soon be completed, and the United Kingdom and Japan provided soft loans to the nation for the third stage.
President of Indonesia: The high-speed train facilitates the flow of people and goods and promotes development.
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