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RI hands early years of high-speed rail operation to China Railway
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Workers examine train cars for the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway at a maintenance depot belonging to PT Kereta Cepat Indonesia-China (KCIC), the operator of the railway, in Tegalluar, Bandung regency, West Java. (Antara/Ricky Prayoga)
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hinese staff from China Railway Group will be responsible for the operation and maintenance of the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway in its early years, PT Kereta Cepat Indonesia-China (KCIC), the Sino-Indonesian consortium responsible for the project, has announced.
KCIC president-director Dwiana Slamet Riyadi claimed on Wednesday that the decision was reasonable as the entire system had been built using Chinese technology.
The firm said it would gradually replace foreign staff with local operators in the coming years.
"We will have one-to-one [replacement], including in the operations control center [OCC], technicians and electric [train] drivers. Today, the local staff are still in internships [...]. Around 1,100 [KCIC staff] are expected [to take over] in the next one to two years," Dwiana told reporters.
China Railway Group was involved in the construction of the railway from the project’s early days.
Through its subsidiary China Railway International, it is a shareholder in the Beijing Yawan consortium, which holds 40 percent of KCIC’s outstanding shares, according to State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) Ministry data.
China Railway Group is also one of three contractors that contributed 70 percent of the engineering, procurement and construction for the project, ministry data shows.
