Japan’s Nippon Sharyo has been awarded a 13 billion yen contract to build 96 metro cars for the Jakarta Mass Rapid Transit system.
The new six-car train sets, which have been ordered by MRT Jakarta, will operate on the North-South Line – Indonesia’s first metro line.
Headquartered in Nagoya, Nippon Sharyo said its the first time in two decades that new Japanese rolling stock has been built for Indonesia’s rail network.
The vehicles will be built to the Standard Urban Railway System for Asia (STRASYA) – a system developed by Japanese rail companies based on tested technology to aid the export of Japanese rail technology to Asian countries.
Officials in Jakarta already plan to extend the 15.7-kilometre line further north and build a new east-west line.
