Jasa Marga to introduce card system<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): PT Jasa Marga, the state-run company assigned to
\nmanage all of Indonesia's toll roads, will issue prepaid cards
\nfor toll roads in a trial project beginning early next month.<\/p>\n
\"The cards will be used by the company's personnel on Jakarta
\ntoll roads during the trial,\" the company's operations director,
\nBambang Sundjoyo, said on Monday.<\/p>\n
Sundjoyo said that, before introducing the cards for use at
\ntollgates outside capital, Jasa Marga wants to make sure that the
\nprepaid card terminals, worth Rp 50 million (US$22,321) each,
\nwill work perfectly for a long period of time.<\/p>\n
The prepaid cards, to be produced by Jasa Marga in cooperation
\nwith Bank Ekspor Impor Indonesia, will be used in the same way as
\ntelephone cards.<\/p>\n
\"By using prepaid cards for paying road tolls, transactions at
\ntollgates will be much faster than they are when cash is used,\"
\nsaid Jasa Marga's president Mariyadi Darmokumoro.<\/p>\n
Mariyadi said that the prepaid cards will have a value of
\nbetween Rp 30,000 and Rp 100,000.<\/p>\n
Indonesia now has some 475 kilometers of toll roads, built
\nboth by Jasa Marga and private companies, which include the
\npublicly-listed PT Citra Marga Nusaphala Persada and the Humpuss
\nGroup. (31)<\/p>",
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