Indonesia Allocates Rp 4.3 Trillion for Completion of Fast Train

During the negotiations, several things that are proposed by the Ministry of Finance are being discussed.

Among them are KCJB's initial capital deposit by the consortium and the possibility of dilution of the government's 60 percent stake in the project.

"If the government's ownership is diluted, we don't need to issue such a large State Capital Participation (PMN)," said Sri.

She also explained that the initial capital for the KCJB project should have been deposited at US$920 million on a B2B basis by four SOEs, namely PT Perkebunan Nusantara (PTPN), Waskita, PT Jasa Marga, and PT KAI at the start of the project, which was around 2015.

However, when the project started running, the four state-owned companies that were members of a consortium could not deposit the initial capital.

Therefore, the KCJB project was carried our through a loan from the China Development Bank (CDB).

"However, this loan was disbursed and until a certain point the equity ran out," she said.

Sri hoped that the Ministry of SOEs and the consortium could find the middle point of the problem, considering that the KCJB project has been included in the National Strategic Project (PSN) through Presidential Regulation (Perpres) Number 109/2020. (antara/mcr20/jpnn)

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