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PT Kereta Api Indonesia (Persero) / KAI said it will add a series of trains which will be operated in 2018. This train is a product of PT INKA (Persero).

The addition of this series of trains is done to meet the predicted increase in the number of passengers each year.

"Before Lebaran 2018 we try to come 4 new train sets from INKA, both economy class and executive," said KAI President Director Edi Sukmoro at the Ministry of SOEs, Wednesday (10/1/2018).

READ ALSO Seeing KAI's New Inspection Train KAI Gets Rp 1.3 Trillion Budget in 2018, What's For? KAI Imposes New Train Tariff Formula in 2018 The series of new trains, Edi said, outside of the number of cars to be rejuvenated in 2018. The rejuvenation of the carriage as much as 430 passenger cars.

This rejuvenation needs to be done in order to improve the services of the company, given the current average age of gerbing is already more than 30 years.

To meet the financing of the procurement of new trains and the rejuvenation of several cars, KAI plans to issue bonds again in 2018.

"Our bonds are planned in Semeseter 1 (2018), a maximum of Rp 2 trillion, and we will use one of them for the rejuvenation," he said.