State-run railway operator Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI) will disburse the remaining half of its Rp 8.5 trillion ($646 million) capital expenditure allocated for 2016 to purchase trains for major projects, including high speed trains, light rail transit (LRT) and airport railways. The capital will be used to develop KAI’s projects in Sumatra as well as state-assigned projects in both Sumatra and Java. The firm’s projects include a coal transportation service in South Sumatra that will be used by state miner Bukit Asam; an LRT project in Palembang, South Sumatra; train services for the Minangkabau International Airport in West Sumatra and Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Tangerang, Banten; and a high speed train from Bandung in West Java to Jakarta.
