Indonesia’s plan has caught some by surprise, as the project appeared to be earmarked for Japan.
Questions emerged when Coordinating Economics Minister Airlangga Hartarto announced in May 2020 that the government had decided to extend the China-backed Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway project to Surabaya in East Java, along a route similar to one Japan had begun studying in 2018.
The former, he said, would run along a southern route to connect the Jakarta-Bandung project with Surabaya via Kertajati in West Java, where the government recently built a new airport, as well as via Surakarta and Yogyakarta. Supandi, a spokesperson for the Rail Transportation Directorate General at the Transportation Ministry, told the Post on Friday that the latter, called the Java North Line Upgrading Project, would connect Jakarta and Surabaya with a route along the northern coast of Java via Cirebon in West Java and Semarang in Central Java.
The southern region, he explained, had many mountains along the route, which would drive up the project’s costs. More than a dozen tunnels have been built for the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed project alone. China's advantages, he said, were its lower development costs and faster project preparation. Japan tended to be more careful, resulting in a much longer preparation time and higher costs because of more precise budget planning, which included project risks.
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