Railways
The majority of Indonesia's railway length is on Java, which has two major rail lines running the length of the island, as well as several minor lines. Passenger and freight service runs on these lines. There is also commuter rail service in the Jakarta metropolitan area, known as KRL Jabotabek and in Surabaya. In 2008, the government under PT Kereta Api and Angkasa Pura planned to build the airport railway from Soekarno-Hatta Airport to Manggarai (Jakarta) but this development appears to be stalled. A monorail mass transit system was under construction in Jakarta, but development ceased after the Asian Financial Crisis in 1998 and there is no indication that it will recommence in the near term. The decaying remnant of this stillborn development, in the form of a number of dilapidated pairs of steel reinforced concrete pilons, can be seen straddling roads in places in Jakarta.
The only other areas in Indonesia having railroads are three separate regions of Sumatra, one in the north around Medan, second in the West Sumatra from Pariaman to Padang and the other in the southern trip, from Lubuk Linggau (South Sumatra) to Bandar Lampung, (Lampung).
The island of Kalimantan has or is to get a 122 km long railway for the transport of coal.
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