JAKARTA: Transportation Minister Hatta Radjasa said Friday his office might take over a railway project linking the capital with Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in nearby Tangerang.
"I will take over the project if the current operator fails to work on the project," Hatta was quoted as saying by detik.com news portal.
"The project will be completed if the company works on it. Otherwise they will never finish it."
The rights to the 30-kilometer project are currently held by PT Rail Link, a joint subsidiary of state railway operator PT Kereta Api and state airport operator PT Angkasa Pura II.
Hatta said his ministry gave PT Rail Link until the end of this year to finish the project's engineering design, to organize financing and to acquire land.
"We want the railway to be operational by the end of 2008 or early 2009," he said.
The project will use an existing railway linking Manggarai station in South Jakarta with Kalideres station in West Jakarta, from which a new 9.3-km railway track will be constructed to connect Kalideres to the airport. The land required for the project is densely populated. -- JP
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