KAI Commuter Plans To Order 8 New KRL Again

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JAKARTA - PT Kereta Commuter Indonesia (KCI) or KAI Commuter plans to purchase 8 new trainsets (KRL). The plan has entered the current procurement planning stage.

KAI Commuter VP Corporate Secretary Anne Purba said the preparation process for the new KRL procurement needs to be carried out from now on, in line with monitoring of the work process from INKA. He said, these 8 new trainsets were outside the import of 3 new KRL from China.

Furthermore, Anne said this was also outside the procurement of 16 new KRL series from INKA and 19 reactive series that INKA was also working on.

"So we want to see first what the retrofit will be for our KRL, which we have to monitor and mitigate, minimize delay problems, so that the 8 procurement preparations have now started again," he said at a press conference, at the KCI office, Jakarta, Tuesday, February 6th.

Furthermore, Anne also said that the procurement of these new 8 KRLs will later go through an auction process. The auction aims to determine who will handle the request.

"Yes, you have to (auction) right. So this is the stage. This is currently preparing for procurement," he said.

However, Anne did not mention the source of the new KRL procurement later. He said he was still waiting for further processes. Even so, Anne said this procurement plan was in anticipation of delays in the retrofitting process which is currently being carried out by PT Industri Kereta Api (Persero) or INKA.

"We will update the next one. Because we also have to check the production capacity (INKA), what kind of delivery time will be. Because at this time our passenger volume has also gone to 1 million (passengers) again, so the time delivery is one of the things we have to monitor right now," he said.