Damri Asks For IDR 1 Trillion PMN Capital Injection

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JAKARTA - Perum Damri proposed a State Capital Participation (PMN) for the 2025 fiscal year of IDR 1 trillion.

The funds are planned to be used to buy Transjakarta electric buses, as well as to rejuvenate buses.

President Director of Perum Damri Setia N Milanita Moemin said, of the total proposed PMN, Rp510 billion will be used to buy 100 Transjakarta electric buses.

Then, Rp490 billion was used for the rejuvenation of 384 pioneer transportation diesel buses.

"Damri asked PMN Rp1 trillion for production equipment. First, the rejuvenation of 384 pioneer transportation diesel buses amounting to Rp490 billion. Then, Rp510 billion will be allocated to provide 100 urban electric buses and electricity infrastructure," he said in a meeting with Commission VI of the DPR, at the Parliament Complex, Jakarta, Tuesday, July 9.

Setia said that the rejuvenation of pioneer buses was based on several considerations. Like the average age of the transportation fleet, it has been more than seven years.

Where these buses consist of buses he made in 2014 and 2015.

He said that bus rejuvenation needs to be done, because the quality of the bus is not good because of the heavy terrain conditions.

"The age of urban transportation is approaching 10 years as an urban transportation limit," he said.

Meanwhile, he continued, the purchase of this electric bus was to replace the fossil fuel bus. Setia said Damri controlled 467 buses out of 1,374 large buses in Transjakarta.

This '467 buses must be replaced as electric buses. What we are proposing is for 100 electric buses for 2025. It covers 34 percent of all existing Transjakarta buses," he explained.