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Lawsuit will not impact MRT project, says firm
MRT construction will not be affected by a lawsuit involving one of the projectâs consortium members, the company has stated
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RT construction will not be affected by a lawsuit involving one of the project's consortium members, the company has stated.
Local firm PT Dextam Contractors filed three civil lawsuits last year against Japanese company Shimizu Corp. ' which is involved in the construction of the MRT project in Jakarta ' for allegedly 'violating its working contract'. The dispute is still ongoing at the Central Jakarta District Court.
Shimizu is one of five firms that won a tender to construct the MRT, along with other Japanese firms and state-owned firms.
Responding to various reports on the legal dispute, PT MRT Jakarta management issued a statement on Thursday citing that the legal dispute had no connection to the ongoing MRT construction project.
MRT Jakarta president director Dono Boestami said that the legal dispute was between the two developers. 'The legal dispute between Shimizu Corp. and Dextam Contractors is between the two companies. It has nothing to do with MRT Jakarta,' Dono said in a press release made available for The Jakarta Post on Thursday.
He said that MRT Jakarta was connected to Shimizu through a consortium in which Shimizu is a part of.
'The winner of the surface section was the Obayashi-Shimizu-Jaya Konstruksi joint venture, while the winner of the underground section was the Shimizu-Obayashi-Wijaya Karya-Jaya Konstruksi consortium. MRT Jakarta is legally bound to contracts with the consortiums, not with the Shimizu Corp.,' he said, adding that the project would not be affected even though Shimizu backed out of the consortium.
Dono asked the disputed parties not to drag MRT Jakarta into the case.
MRT construction has entered the underground station construction stage along the Sisingamangaraja-Sudirman-Hotel Indonesia (HI) traffic circle corridor, while soil tests along the Lebak Bulus-Fatmawati-Blok M-Sisingamangaraja corridor ' where the elevated section will be built ' are ongoing.
MRT Jakarta is in the midst of completing the tender for the railway system and rolling stock, which is expected to be completed in November and December.
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), which provided ¥125 billion (US$1.14 billion) in soft loans to fund the construction of the capital's first MRT track, has approved the technical evaluation, but has yet to approve the price evaluation, according to MRT Jakarta.
The first MRT track will connect Lebak Bulus in South Jakarta to the HI traffic circle in Central Jakarta.
