REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) is scheduled to review the progress of the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) project on Thursday.
The president will oversee the MRT tunneling project at the area around Pemuda Statue in Senayan on Thursday morning.
The MRT project is an infrastructure project in Jakarta that aims to relieve traffic congestion in the capital city of Indonesia.
When launching the operation of a tunnel boring machine (TBM) for the Mass Rapid Transport (MRT) project in South Jakarta on October 21, Jokowi said the project had to be done at this time so that the benefits and costs can be effectively used.
The first TBM called "Anteraja" will commence operations in the Senayan Statue area to dig a tunnel towards Setiabudi point.
The Anteraja is one of the four TBMs that will be operated in the MRT project in Jakarta.
Using the "Earth Pressure Balance (EPB)" technology, the TBM in Indonesia has been made by a Japanese company, Japan Tunnel Systems Corporation.
Weighing 323 tons, the TBM has a diameter of around 6.7 meters and a length of 43 meters.
The Anteraja TBM is able to drill a tunnel at a speed of eight meters per day, and the construction of the tunnel is expected to run from September 2015 to December 2016.
At the time the president remarked that the delay in the infrastructure development would make the construction cost even more expensive.
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