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South East Asia’s first high-speed rail project is expected to connect the country’s largest cities of Jakarta and Bandung, the 2nd largest city and capital of West Java, covering a distance approaching 142.3 kilometres. As of September 2022, the prime contractor, PT.Wikipedia
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Nampaknya ada masalah berkaitan pembayaran bagi Projek HSR Jakarta-Bandung
Apabila China meminta Kementerian Kewangan Indonesia menggunakan Anggaran Pendapatan Dan Belanjawan Negara(Bajet) bagi menjadi penjamin untuk membayar hutang projek berkenaan pic.twitter.com/HjGJgHZtSe
It seems that there is a payment related problem for the Jakarta-Bandung HSR Project. China asked the Indonesian Ministry of Finance to use the National Budget and Income Estimate (Budget) to be a guarantor to pay the debt of the project.
Indonesia’s Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment, Luhut Panjaitan, informed that the guarantor and payer for the debt will remain PT Penjaminan Infrastruktur Indonesia which is a private company established in Indonesia in 2018
Luhut also informed that negotiations are underway between Indonesia and China to reduce debt interest from 4 to 3 percent but Indonesia requests that it be lowered to 2 percent. If the APBN (Budget) is used, it will cause the Indonesian Government to bear the burden of this project.
There are 2 proposals related to HSR from Japan and China. Japan’s initial cost price is 6.2 Billion USD compared to 5.5 Billion USD for China but the interest rate for Japan is only 0.1 percent compared to China of 2.0-3.4 percent.
This makes the maturity period of the debt for 40 years. It is estimated that Indonesia will save 2.4 Billion USD if it borrows from Japan. But now Indonesia borrows from China. I hope that when Malaysia makes the HSR, it will be the best.
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Nampaknya ada masalah berkaitan pembayaran bagi Projek HSR Jakarta-Bandung
Apabila China meminta Kementerian Kewangan Indonesia menggunakan Anggaran Pendapatan Dan Belanjawan Negara(Bajet) bagi menjadi penjamin untuk membayar hutang projek berkenaan pic.twitter.com/HjGJgHZtSe
Luhut juga memaklumkan rundingan sedang dijalankan antara Indonesia dan China bagi menurunkan bunga hutang dari 4 ke 3 peratus tetapi Indonesia meminta agar ia diturunkan kepada 2 peratus
Kalau guna APBN ia menyebabkan Kerajaan Indonesia harus menanggung projek ini
Ini menjadikan menjelang tempoh matang hutang berkenaan selama 40 tahun. Dianggarkan Indonesia akan jimat 2.4 Bilion USD jika meminjam dengan Jepun. Tetapi skrg Indonesia meminjam dengan China
Aku harap nanti Malaysia buat HSR tu buatlah terbaik
JAKARTA — Indonesia’s planned high-speed rail project, an integral part of China’s Belt and Road initiative, is raising fresh concerns about its safety, profitability and accessibility.
Scheduled to start service in July, a month later than planned, the 142-kilometer-long railway will connect the capital Jakarta with Bandung in West Java province.
In mid-December, a maintenance train and locomotive derailed at a construction site near Bandung, killing two Chinese workers and spurring concerns about the safety of high-speed rail in the country. It was the first fatal accident involving the line.
A senior Indonesian government official said there was a problem with the locomotive’s brake and that human error could also have played a part in the accident. Both Jakarta and Beijing said that the accident poses no threat to the safety of high-speed rail in Indonesia.
Both governments stressed that the accident was caused by the maintenance vehicle and that the locomotive imported from China escaped major damage.
Kereta Cepat Indonesia China (KCIC) — the consortium running the project, which is funded by state-owned railway operator Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI) and other organizations — resumed construction before findings of the government investigation into the accident were released. The president of KAI told reporters on Jan. 28 that the railway’s opening will be postponed until July. .
Another concern is profitability. The Indonesian government initially tried to adopt Japan’s bullet train for the project, but in 2015 switched to a Chinese proposal that did not involve funding by the Indonesian government.
It was decided that 75% of the construction cost would be funded by loans from China Development Bank with the remainder coming from KCIC.
Police have detained a 34-year-old man in connection with suspected arson that destroyed 13 motorcycles and four electric scooters in front of a popular mall in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday.
A spokesman for the Kuala Lumpur Fire and Rescue Department operation centre said that in the 3.45pm incident, a total of 15 firefighters, with three fire engines from the Tun Razak and Keramat fire stations, rushed to the scene https://t.co/gH5p6nvCUt
Blaze chars nine motorcycles, four electric scooters outside Suria KLCC
15 firefighters rushed to scene, says KL Fire and Rescue Dept
Updated 29 minutes ago · Published on 13 Apr 2023 8:20PM
KUALA LUMPUR – Nine motorcycles and four electric scooters were destroyed in a fire in front of the Suria KLCC shopping centre, this afternoon.
A spokesman for the Kuala Lumpur Fire and Rescue Department operation centre said that in the 3.45pm incident, a total of 15 firefighters, with three fire engines from the Tun Razak and Keramat fire stations, rushed to the scene
“Upon arrival, we found that nine motorcycles and four electric scooters were completely burnt, while four other motorcycles were burnt between 3% and 20%,” he said in a statement here today.
