State-owned bus company PPD operates 40 gas-fueled buses<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): State-owned bus company Perum PPD began
\noperating 40 gas-fueled buses in the city yesterday.<\/p>\n
Minister of Transportation Haryanto Dhanutirto said they were
\nthe first of 700 gas-fueled buses to replace diesel buses to
\nreduce pollution.<\/p>\n
The company spent US$40 million on the 40 buses and its
\nnatural gas station in Tangerang, West Java, in a project
\nsponsored by businesswoman Siti Hardijanti Rukmana.<\/p>\n
The 700 buses are being supplied by Hungary's Ikarus company.<\/p>\n
PPD has tested three of the buses on city routes.<\/p>\n
PPD's president, Dwi Wahyono, said the 40 buses would serve as
\nair-conditioned express buses on the Blok M-Kota and Grogol-Pasar
\nBaru routes.<\/p>\n
Operating the buses was 30 percent more efficient than using
\ndiesel buses, he said.<\/p>\n
He estimated they could be up to 70 percent more efficient
\nwhen the company used its own natural gas station.<\/p>\n
State Minister of Environment Sarwono Kusumaatmadja said
\nearlier that the "Blue Sky" program for clean air was getting
\nmore support from the government and the private sector.<\/p>\n
The country has 2,934 taxis and 300 private cars using
\ncompressed natural gas (CNG) and 13 natural gas stations.<\/p>\n
Eleven of the stations are in Jakarta and two are in Surabaya,
\nEast Java.<\/p>\n
Up to 800 taxis and five private cars in Jakarta use
\nliquid petroleum gas.<\/p>\n
The government hopes to set up five more CNG stations: in
\nJakarta, in Medan, North Sumatra, in Palembang, South Sumatra,
\nand in Cirebon and Cikampek, West Java.<\/p>\n
The government hopes the country will have 500 stations
\nserving liquid petroleum gas by 2001. It only has 50 now.
\n(03\/icn)<\/p>",
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