TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Jakarta City Administration will launch an additional 60 buses this year. Dozens of buses are a part of public transportation revitalization program to rejuvenate old bus fleet of metromini, kopaja and kopami.
Jakarta Governor, Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama acknowedged that the City Administration will paid the operator party who purchase the bus with rupiah per kilometers system. Those buses were manufactured by a Japanese auto bus company, Hino and assembled in Indonesia.
“Hino is ready to go, around 60 units for this year. In the next year the chasis gas component would be built. They able to produce 2,000 units per year, this is what we expect more,” he said, Friday (7/31) evening.
However, the bus spesification is much like with the existing of Transjakarta single bus. He is no longer want any existing kopaja, kopami and metromini.
“The bigger bus we provided, the more passenger capacity can be transported,” he uttered.
In addition, around 40-50 percent of the component used to assemble the bus is from local component. Whereas Hino specification has high standard and the factory is already exist in Indonesia, which the body of the bus is made in Ungaran, Central Java.
Eventually, Hino targeted such bus will be operated around October to December and the procurement of the bus was already submitted to e-catalogue of National Procurement Agency (LKPP).
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