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strong>Feb. 10, 2016

The government has agreed to provide a legal guarantee for the country'€™s first high-speed railway project, assuring that the project will not be affected by regulatory changes and that the government will not unilaterally cancel the concession agreement.

Transportation Minister Ignasius Jonan said that the concession period would be set depending on the feasibility study. If the concession is granted, PT Kereta Cepat Indonesia China (KCIC) may pocket rights to operate the railway for 50 years from its first operation.

'€œIf construction is delayed, the concession [period] will abide by the agreement [not affected],'€ he said at a press conference in the State Palace complex in Jakarta on Tuesday.

Your comments:

Has there been any independent assessment of this by someone who knows what they are doing? How many kilometers does it take to get to high speed? How long does it take to stop from high speed? How many stations will there be? What is the track length? Anyone see an obvious problem?

Farmer Jakarta

I just really hope the high-speed railway is finished.

Would be awesome if Indonesia was the first country to have a high-speed train before the Malaysia-Singapore high-speed railway is finished.

Don'€™tCareAtAll

The truth is that these guys don'€™t know a thing about high-speed trains or how to plan and build them. They are all talking out of their asses.

Charles Jarret

What'€™s it going to be, one-third or 35 kilometers? Not quite the same, is it? Pulling out that pocket calculator would be a grand idea before the transportation minister spoke to the public. It is a 142.3-km railway. '€œ[We need] at least, [documents] for 35 km, or one-third of the total railway.'€ Predicting 60,000 passengers and now 30,000 or less? What'€™s it going to be next?

Yaudah

Indonesian bureaucracy is at its best. Good luck getting investors.

Willo1246

First groundbreaking, then licensing, then planning, then finding land. Yes, it looks like a perfectly normal project.

Kantisini