Tomorrow Coordinating Minister For Maritime Affairs Will Try The Jakarta-Bandung High Speed Train With Chinese PM

Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment (Kemenko Marves) Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan is scheduled to try out the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed train with Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang.

This was stated directly by the Deputy Minister of SOEs Rosan Roeslani after the ASEAN Summit at the Jakarta Convention Center, Tuesday, September 5.

"So actually tomorrow the plan is from the Chinese Prime Minister and also together with the Coordinating Minister who will conduct testing from the fast train tomorrow on 6 (September)," he said.

On this occasion, Rosan also revealed that the plan for the first mass transportation mode in Indonesia will be inaugurated on October 1, 2023.

"Regarding the high-speed train, the plan is indeed to launch it on October 1, yes," said Rosan.

Separately, Minister of State-Owned Enterprises (BUMN) Erick Thohir confirmed that the construction of the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed rail physical project has been completed, and is ready to be operationalized in the near future.

"That (regarding the trial time) of the Minister of Transportation's policy, we are only preparing the fast train, ready," he said.

Erick said the purpose of the construction of the KCJB project was to overcome congestion in Jakarta-Bandung which was increasingly crowded with private vehicles.

"Because if we look at the condition of Bandung, which is now 40 percent jammed, in the future it will get jammed. What does that mean? They reduce congestion in Bandung, Jakarta. One of them is by fast train," he said.