Three Skytrain trains connecting terminals on the capital’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport are a part of the federal government’s efforts to modernize Indonesia’s infrastructure
According to Sea-globe.com, construction of three Skytrains at Jakarta’s state-owned Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, the capital’s most important airport and one among the busiest in Asia, shall be accomplished in August.
“We will be conducting a commissioning process to ensure everything is in place before we are fully operational in the second half of this year. The launch takes about a month,” Yado Yarismano, public relations manager at the corporate managing the airport, told local media Kompas.
Initially, two carriages with a capability of 176 people will connect Terminal 2 and Terminal 3, in response to state-owned airport operator PT Angkasa Putra II (AP II).
“Meanwhile, in August, the sky railway will be fully operational, and three trains with a capacity of 528 people will connect Terminal 1, Terminal 2 and Terminal 3,” AP II director Muhammad Awaluddin announced in a press statement on Wednesday.
He added that the sky train journey will take 5 minutes and it would take 7 minutes to get from Terminal 1 to Terminal 3.
The Skytrain itself is being built by state-owned company PT LEN in cooperation with Woojin from South Korea, while the infrastructure shall be handled by state-owned construction firms PT Wijaya Karya Tbk and PT Indulexco.
Skytrain is one among many similar projects undertaken by President Joko Widodo, who has hailed infrastructure investment as key to his pre-election goal of achieving annual economic growth of seven%. In 2016, the rise was just over 5%.
