JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – Taking place at the construction site of the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Jakarta at the Senayan roundabout, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has kicked off the drilling work for the underground section of the south-central MRT line, Monday (Sep. 21) morning.
Attending the ceremony were Minister of Transportation Ignasius Jonan, Vice Governor of Jakarta Djarot Saiful Hidayat, PT MRT Jakarta CEO Dono Boestami, Japan’s Ambassador for Indonesia Yasuaki Tanizaki, Chief of the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) Harry Azhar Azis, and Minister of State Apparatus & Bureaucracy Reform Yuddy Chrisnandi.
This is the first giant Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) operated for the drilling work starting from the Senayan roundabout switch point to north towards Sudirman street. Three other giant tunnel boring machines will be operated later.
It’ll take 15 months until December 2016 to drill and build up 6 KM underground section of the MRT spanning from the Senayan roundabout switch point continue to north towards the Hotel Indonesia roundabout where the south-central line ends. (haryantosuharman@yosefardi.com)