Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) will be operated based on international standardization. PT MRT involves Japanese consultant, OMCJ. It is targeted MRT operational to run February 2019.

We must see other countries’ MRT management and to be applied here

PT MRT Director, William P Sabandar, admitted his side also involves several countries to apply the international standardization.

“We must see other countries’ MRT management and to be applied here,” he said, Wednesday (12/14).

He added that OMCJ is a Japanese and Indonesia consultant consortium. The Japanese consortium consultants are JIC, Nippon Koei, Oriental, Padeco, JR East and Tokyo Metro.

“JR East and Tokyo Metro are city train operators in Japan. They have good reputation,” he added.

As the human resource step, his side cooperates with Akademi Perkeretaapian Indonesia (API) in Madiun for holding training. MRT machinist recruitment has been started since 2016 and will end next year.

“We’ll recruit 10 machinists for the first stage,” he closed.