Construction Of Tunnel 2 KCJB Slow, Jokowi: Needs To Be Careful

President Jokowi/DOK BPMI Setpres

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo inspected the tunnel construction project for the Jakarta-Bandung High Speed Train (KCJB) in Purwakarta Regency, West Java.

Jokowi received a report from the Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan and the President Director of PT KCIC Dwiyana Slamet Riyadi that the construction process for the second tunnel was progressing quite slowly.

"From the information in the field, the Director of KCIC as well as the Menkomarinves, as well as from the Ministry of Public Works, that the second tunnel is indeed running a bit slow because the type of soil here does require careful work," said Jokowi as seen in the broadcast. Presidential Secretariat Youtube, Monday, January 17th.

However, Jokowi hopes that the construction of the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed train can be operational by the middle of 2023. Currently, 79.9 percent of the construction has progressed.

"We hope that by the end of 2022 it will be tested and then in June 2023 we can operate it," said Jokowi.

With the operation of KCJB later, Jokowi hopes that traffic congestion in Jakarta to Bandung and vice versa can be reduced.

"We hope that the completion of the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed train will reduce congestion both in Jakarta and in Bandung, as well as accelerate the mobility of people and goods and we hope that this will become a good competitive advantage for our country," he concluded.