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Historical Background Jakarta MRT

Although it has been roughly 40 years since the concept of the Jakarta MRT was
first
raised, around 20 years since the first feasibility study was conducted (in the
1990s during
the Suharto era), and about 15 years since Japan offered support to construct the
Jakarta
MRT (in the carly days of the Reformasi era when Indonesia was in the recovery
phase

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Finan Is), only recently the project has taken off. After years of
underinvestment in Jakarta's infrastructure, traffic congestion had caused complete
deadlocks on strects of several parts of Jakarta on working days. However, when
Joko
Widodo became Governor of Jakarta in 2012 (assisted by Deputy Governor Basuki
Tjahaja Purnama, better known as Ahok), the pair were cager to make a difference
and

pushed for realization of the long overdue Jakarta MTR project.

One notorious obstacle to infrastructure projects in Indonesia is land acguisition.

Although
most of the land that is necessary for the construction of the Jakarta MTR has been

acguired, there remain some land acgui

ion issues, primarily in the southern section of

the project which is constructed above ground level. This may cause a delay in
completion

of the project.

For the underground sections, 6.05-meter inner diameter tunnels need to be created
removing an estimated 5 million cubic meters of material from the construction
area. Part

of this material will be used for infrastructure and property development in North
Jakarta.

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