Selected members of the Indonesian public will be invited to try out the new high-speed trains during the soft launch in August.
JAKARTA: For the past few years, Kartinah has lived with the constant roar of construction work at Padalarang station, one of four high-speed rail stations which will connect Jakarta with West Java’s capital Bandung.
“Padalarang is only 65 per cent ready because initially, the station was at Walini ,” said Ms Eva Chairunisa, corporate secretary of PT KCIC.consortium of Indonesian and Chinese state companies building the railway. Covering a distance of 142km, the high-speed rail train will connect Jakarta with Bandung through four stations, namely Halim, Karawang, Padalarang and Tegalluar.Halim station is in East Jakarta, while the other three are located in West Java province.in Indonesia last September, PT KCIC aimed for construction to be ready by June.
“But we guarantee that the Halim and Tegalluar stations have the facilities to accommodate passengers during the soft launch later. Commuters who intend to get to South Jakarta from the station located in East Jakarta, for example, may spend about 1.5 hours in traffic during peak hours - about twice the time it takes to get to Bandung using the HSR.Ms Chairunisa said that the Greater Jakarta light rapid transit train, which is also expected to be launched on Aug 18, will partially solve the problem since one of the stations is near the HSR Halim station.
“So they hire an independent consultant to work on the certification because we also do not have regulations on HSR. Therefore, they will use the international standard,” he said.
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