Indonesia’s capital Jakarta, whose metropolitan area is home to more than 30 million people, is notorious for its stifling traffic congestion. In response, the government metro and light-rail networks and now it is funding an expansion of the fare-collection system to enable more multimodal payments and to build a mobility-as-a-service platform.
Jakarta Lingko, known as JakLingko, a transit operator-owned company that integrates fare payments and connections in the large Jakarta metropolitan area, known as Jabodetabek, awarded a reported Rp 900 billion (US$64 million) project to a consortium that includes France-based Thales Group. Thales announced the eight-year build-operate-transfer project Friday, though the consortium it belongs to was essentially awarded the deal several months earlier.
That was after JakLingko reportedly cancelled or rescinded the award to a consortium that included Indonesian telco Telkom, digital payments provider Gojek and NEC. Thales’ consortium includes Indonesian electronic payments network Jatelindo Perkasa Abadi; Aino Indonesia, a payments gateway and processor; and MaaS technology supplier Lyko.
