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View all search resultsText your say: China to give Indonesia its first bullet train
Your comments on State-Owned Enterprises Minister Rini Soemarnoâs recent disclosure that China had agreed to carry out a high-speed rail project under a business-to-business scheme with no state budget or government guarantee involved
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em>Your comments on State-Owned Enterprises Minister Rini Soemarno's recent disclosure that China had agreed to carry out a high-speed rail project under a business-to-business scheme with no state budget or government guarantee involved.
Today President Jokowi said if the MRT construction had been done 25 years ago, he believed land acquisition would have been much cheaper and there would have been no need to tear down Lebak Bulus Stadium.
The MRT project received protests before its start was even confirmed on Oct. 10, 2013.
'Thank God, now we can see good work [is being done]. Everyone was afraid that there would be congestion everywhere,' he said during the opening ceremony under the Pemuda Statue, Senayan, on Monday.
He asked the public not to hesitate about the impacts of the MRT project, such as congestion and concerns about the tunnel collapsing, as similar projects were already underway in many countries.
'There are experts, let us not pretend to understand and estimate things which we have never done. It's a first, observers often scare people. If we keep hesitating, we will not progress,' he said.
It is the same case with the high speed rail project here in our country! Start moving, do not hesitate, we need to make progress!
Eka Utari
Jakarta
Jokowi courted this project and now says it is scrapped because of pressures on the state budget. I took this as that Indonesia is now broke. Am I wrong?
L Benny
Right now the international community thinks Indonesia cannot control a big infrastructure project.
Deedee S
Wow, lots of money from China. Aren't they generous? I wonder what the collateral for the loans is, natural resources in Natuna perhaps?
BB
Will these Chinese trains be of the same high quality as those famous Chinese Transjakarta buses that were in the news some time ago? Let us wait and see.
Terry McAsee
The Chinese and Japanese companies are in it for business. They will just add the lost costs to the next proposal.
Devineasia
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