KCIC Strives For Ticket Prices For The Jakarta-Bandung High Speed Train No More Than IDR 250,000

Director of the Indonesia China High Speed Train (KCIC) Dwiyana Slamet Riyadi. (Photo: Mery Handayani/VOI)

JAKARTA - Director of the Indonesia China Fast Train (KCIC) Dwiyana Slamet Riyadi revealed that his party is trying to prevent the ticket price of the Jakarta Bandung Fast Train (KCJB) from exceeding IDR 250,000 per person.

"We are discussing the tickets, including from the Ministry of Transportation, and also providing input. This is still a consideration to be immediately determined. From the Ministry of Transportation, he asked if it could be below Rp. 250,000," he said when met at KCIC Halim Station, Jakarta, Thursday, June 22.

Furthermore, Dwiyana also suggested that the sale of KCJB tickets be carried out using a package or bundling system with the Jakarta LRT, as well as a feeder train or feeder train for passengers who continue their journey from Padalarang Station to the center of Bandung City.

"We want to have an integrity ticketing with a feeder, with an LRT like that. That's why later when the COD (commissioning operation date) is really seamless. So we really make it easy to get all the tickets," he said.

Dwiyana ensured that the exact decision on the price of the KCJB ticket would be announced in the near future.

The reason is, KCJB operations will be opened to the public and paid starting in early October.

"The target is the first week of October (for payment). Yes, we hope it will be done soon. What is certain is that the recommendation from the Ministry of Transportation is a maximum of Rp. 250,000," he said.

Before paying, said Dwiyana, KCJB will be free for the community around the high-speed train track. At the same time, he continued, socializing the first mode of transportation in Indonesia.

For your information, KCIC will soft launch the KCJB project on August 18.

After the soft launching is carried out, people can try this fast train for free until October.

"Mr. President asks the public around the high-speed train line to feel it. So later the soft launching will be from August to October, we will give a kind of invitation," he said.