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1. Mass Rapid Transit (MRT)
In 2008, a Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) project is started, where a $1.6 billion loan agreement with
the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has been secured for funding. This flagship
project will be the nation’s first modern urban railway system and it will have North-South and
East-West lines.
The first MRT track (15.7 km), which is currently under construction, will connect South Jakarta
and Central Jakarta with 13 (elevated and underground) stations and a capacity of 173,000
passengers per day, which is targeted to be in operation in 2018. The second track (8.1 km) from
Central Jakarta to North Jakarta is targeted to be in operation in 2020. The East-West line is
currently at the stage of feasibility study and is targeted to be in operation in 2027. The following
figure shows the planned routes of MRT Jakarta.
Figure 8: MRT Jakarta route network
Source: MRT Jakarta, 2015
2. Light Rail Transit (LRT)
When this report is being written, the ground-breaking has been done for the two of the seven
planned LRT routes (see Figure 18 for the planned routes). These routes are not indicated in both
PTM and the Jakarta spatial planning documents.