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Jokowi praises curved LRT overpass, as well as its female designer
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A curved overpass for the Greater Jakarta LRT is under construction in Kuningan, South Jakarta. (Courtesy of LRT Jabodebek/-)
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he Greater Jakarta LRT or LRT Jabodebek's curved section in Kuningan, South Jakarta, has not only received two awards from the Indonesian World Records Museum (MURI) but also praise from President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo.
The President tweeted a picture of the complete section on Thursday morning with a caption reading “One of the hardest construction parts of the Greater Jakarta LRT, the 148-meter curved overpass, has been [completed] above the Kuningan overpass in South Jakarta.
“Congratulations to Adhi Karya. Congratulations as well to the designer, Arvila Delitriana, an engineer from [the Bandung Institute of Technology],” the President tweeted in a posting that had garnered more than 4,000 retweets and 22,000 likes by Friday morning.
The section was unveiled on Monday, with ministers such as Coordinating Maritime Affairs and Investment Minister Luhut Pandjaitan, Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi, Public Works and Housing Minister Basuki Hadimuljono and State-Owned Enterprises Minister Erick Thohir attending the event.
The overpass connects parts of LRT track on Jl. Gatot Subroto and on Jl. HR Rasuna Said, which are part of the first phase of the LRT from Cibubur in East Jakarta to Dukuh Atas in Central Jakarta via Cawang, East Jakarta.
The Greater Jakarta LRT, not to be confused with LRT Jakarta that serves the Velodrome-Kelapa Gading route, is constructed and maintained by state-owned company PT Adhi Karya (ADHI), and its rolling stock is manufactured by state-owned PT Industri Kereta Api Indonesia (INKA).
Arvila said the design was made possible by the balance cantilever method, which gave the 148-m section the appearance of hanging above the ground seemingly without any ground support.
