Jakarta Provincial Government signs a cooperation agreement with Transportation Ministry and PT Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI) at City Hall, Wednesday (1/10). The agreement is signed by Jakarta Vice Governor Basuki T Purnama, Transportation Ministry Train Director General Herman Dwi Atmoko, and PT KAI President Director Ignatius Jonan.

It is conducted because all this time there are buildings without permits that may endanger the safety of train travels

“The agreement with Transportation Ministry and PT KAI is about control and arrangement of land under overpass railroad between Jakarta Kota Station-Manggarai Station and the land that parallel with railroads in Jakarta, as well as arrangement of settlements that integrated with trains in station areas. It is conducted because all this time there are buildings without permits that may endanger the safety of train travels,” stated Basuki.

According to Basuki, the control will include land clearing from all activities outside railways and construction of roads in parallel to the railways as public roads, inspection roads, and collector roads, as well as the construction of green open spaces.

These activities will be done in stages. For the first lands as pilots, those are the ones located under Mangga Besar Station-Sawah Besar railroad overpass, Jayakarta Station-Mangga Besar Station railroad overpass, and parallel rails under the overpass between Mangga Besar Station-Jayakarta Station-Mangga Dua Station.