Jasa Marga to introduce card system

Jasa Marga to introduce card system

JAKARTA (JP): PT Jasa Marga, the state-run company assigned to
manage all of Indonesia's toll roads, will issue prepaid cards
for toll roads in a trial project beginning early next month.

"The cards will be used by the company's personnel on Jakarta
toll roads during the trial," the company's operations director,
Bambang Sundjoyo, said on Monday.

Sundjoyo said that, before introducing the cards for use at
tollgates outside capital, Jasa Marga wants to make sure that the
prepaid card terminals, worth Rp 50 million (US$22,321) each,
will work perfectly for a long period of time.

The prepaid cards, to be produced by Jasa Marga in cooperation
with Bank Ekspor Impor Indonesia, will be used in the same way as
telephone cards.

"By using prepaid cards for paying road tolls, transactions at
tollgates will be much faster than they are when cash is used,"
said Jasa Marga's president Mariyadi Darmokumoro.

Mariyadi said that the prepaid cards will have a value of
between Rp 30,000 and Rp 100,000.

Indonesia now has some 475 kilometers of toll roads, built
both by Jasa Marga and private companies, which include the
publicly-listed PT Citra Marga Nusaphala Persada and the Humpuss
Group. (31)