Satu lagi tambahan, sekedar penghangat suasana diskusi saja... Semoga Tsunami
tidak akan pernah melanda di Sumbar, tetapi KA juga bisa hidup lg... Utk scope
kita MPKAS/MAPPAS, cukup KA Wisata saja dulu.
Salam,
Nofrins
Imron Wahyudi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Imron Wahyudi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:22:52 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Bls: [keretapi] pengadaan KRD di Aceh
Mungkin ini info sudah basi tapi nggak apalah untuk tambahan info tentang KA di
Aceh:
Katanya SNCF menggratiskan biaya study feasibilty karena Tsunami, sekarang
bolanya ada di Jakarta.
Abandoned Dutch Railway In Indonesia May Rise Again Thanks To Tsunami
A locomotive built in 1876 and which served the Medan-Banda Aceh railway line
on Indonesia's North Sumatra island during the Dutch colonial period, is
displayed in downtown Banda Aceh, 28 October 2006. Photo courtesy of Ak Jailani
and AFP.by Sebastien Blanc
Jakarta (AFP) Nov 5, 2006
A colonial-era railway that was once the lifeblood of Indonesia's Aceh could
paradoxically be revived in the wake of the Indian Ocean tsunami, which
obliterated the coastline of the province. Built in 1876 by the Dutch, the
600-kilometre (372-mile) single-gauge railway in the north of Sumatra island,
linking the provincial capital Banda Aceh to the city of Medan, sank into
oblivion a century later amid unrest. The railway reached its zenith just
before World War II, when up to 9,000 people used it daily, transporting around
500 tons of goods to and from the staunchly Muslim area.
Steam trains plying the unique and narrow track along the scenic northeast
coast of Aceh remained in use until the mid-1970s when a bloody separatist
conflict began that lasted until last year, leaving Aceh in isolation.
Metre by metre, the unused rails were overgrown by expanding paddy fields or
subsumed by towns, while stations were gradually converted or neglected. Some
sections of the track were smothered with asphalt and used as narrow roads.
In 2004, Indonesia asked the French railway operator SNCF to conduct a
feasibility study on restoring the line. The company agreed on December 20 --
six days before the tsunami that killed some 168,000 people in Aceh alone.
Shocked by the scale of the catastrophe, SNCF's then-chief executive Louis
Gallois offered to undertake the study free of charge and experts were
appointed to get to work in May 2005.
They travelled to a devastated Aceh and worked in damaged cities such as Banda
Aceh, Sigli, Bireuen and Lhokseumawe.
"We were still able to find technicians and engineers who were involved with
the train," Michel Antraigue, an advisor to SNCF International in Indonesia,
told AFP.
The French workers traced the tracks, which sometimes disappeared under houses
or thick vegetation, and checked the state of the slowly corroding metal
bridges constructed for the railway.
Numerous local officials told them of their desire to see the return of the
train.
Their work was documented by filmmakers commissioned by SNCF who created
"Travelogues of Sumatra," which scored a prize last month in Paris at a film
festival focusing on construction and the environment.
In their report, the engineers concluded that a resumption of rail traffic was
possible if substantial work is carried out, such as widening the gauge from 70
centimetres to 1.435 metres.
"Everything needs tidying up as far as the route is concerned," Eric Dussiot,
an SNCF architect, says in the film.
The railway was built for trains expected to move at a maximum speed of 80
kilometres (50 miles) per hour, but the French have recommended making it
suited to trains travelling 50 percent faster.
Special measures would need to be taken in highly populated areas, where the
train driver once used to simply honk a horn to warn of the train's approach.
"The French railroad employees worked hand in hand with their colleagues from
the Indonesian railroads" to carry out the study, said Jean-Pierre Loubinoux,
chairman of SNCF International.
"We deeply hope that this project becomes a reality."
The ball is now in the court of the government in Jakarta, which sees the rail
link as a way of strengthening ties between the formerly restive province and
the rest of the Indonesian archipelago.
The Aceh Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Agency (BRR), which coordinates
rebuilding projects in tsunami-hit areas, has listed the restoration of the
railway among its planned major projects.
"The tsunami allows us to mobilise a certain amount of capital," said the
advisor Antraigue.
Trains would be useful to rebuilding efforts in the region, where the
destruction of infrastructure has rendered it difficult to bring in
reconstruction materials, he added.
Source: Agence France-Presse
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