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View all search resultsThe coordinating infrastructure minister says the government aims to draw on the lessons from the Jakarta-Bandung HSR project in ensuring an airtight development plan for the service's second route connecting Jakarta with its East Java capital Surabaya, which he says will be a "breakthrough" in cross-Java mobility.
Though a preliminary study is underway on Whoosh's Surabaya extension as a necessary development, the question of who will foot the bill looms large, with the government insistent on not dipping into the state coffers and operator KCIC insisting it can't go it alone.
The operator of the Jakarta-Bandung HSR, dubbed Whoosh, has distanced itself from the business competition watchdog's investigation into suspected collusion in a procurement tender to deliver imported EMU trains upon their arrival at Tanjung Priok.
Indonesian state-owned enterprises (SOEs) booked Rp 3.53 trillion (US$221.8 million) in losses related to the operation of the Whoosh high-speed railway in the first half of this year, according to a financial report released by state-owned railway company PT Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI).
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