"After we held a tender on the Soekarno-Hatta airport, there are five foreign investors having an interest in the project including from the United States, France, Spain, Canada and Japan," President director of PT Sarana Multi Infrastruktur (SMI) Emma Sri Martini told a discussion about Indonesia Infrastructure Outlook 2012 in Jakarta Thursday.1).
Earlier, Emma said, on November 10, 2011 SMI has signed an MoU with the cooperation project authorities to accelerate the implementation of the project.
"We estimated that the building of the project can be started in 2014. Right now we are still waiting for a proposal from the consultant," Emma said.
On the funding, Emma said she offered two choices, public private partnership and e-procurement.
"It is not for us to make the decision, but the relevant authorities. We are merely helping with making the preparations of the infrastructure project, including a railway project," Emma said.
Emma hoped the chosen consultant would be able to help valuate the coalition status, legality and land license which will become the location of the location of the Bandara Soekarno-Hatta - Manggarai railway project. (*)
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