Excavation began at Hotel Indonesia Traffic Circle, where there will be an underground station. A guide wall is due to be completed within three months, which will allow a diaphragm wall to be built. The time-scale for the completion of this and subsequent station works is four years.
In May 2013, the city authorities announced the winners of the tenders for the three underground civil works packages. Sumitomo Mitsui Construction Company and PT Hutama Karya is undertaking the work at Hotel Indonesia Traffic Circle, whereas the other two packages are being carried out by a consortium of Shimizu, Obayashi, Wijaya Karya and Jaya Konstruksi.
Two of the three elevated civil works packages will be carried out by a Tokyu-WIKA consortium, with a consortium of Obayashi, Shimizu and Jaya Konstruksi responsible for the other.
Commercial operations on the 15.7km line are planned to start in early 2018.
An 8.1km northern extension is planned as the second phase.
President Director of MRT Jakarta Dono Boestami acknowledged the pivotal role of the mass transportation mode. He said that the MRT Jakarta project can be the pioneer of similar projects in other cities.
"Domestic and international markets will believe that Indonesia is capable of running this type of project," he said.
