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Siantar – Parapat Railway: The missing link for the Medan – Lake Toba Railway

May 22, 2023 By James Clark Leave a Comment

Siantar - Parapat Railway

The Siantar – Parapat Railway is a proposed railway to connect Medan to Lake Toba in North Sumatra. There is already a railway from Medan to Siantar, so this extension is the missing link to connect the largest city in Sumatra to one of the most popular tourist destinations on the island.

Parapat on Lake Toba
[Parapat on Lake Toba.]

The Siantar – Parapat Railway is quoted as 64.7 Km in length with an estimated cost of USD 814.65 million / IDR 12.1 trillion ($1 = IDR14,853).

The railway is part of an overall plan to diversify Indonesia’s tourism areas beyond Bali (referred to as 10 New Balis).

The project will be divided into 3 segments:
1. Siantar Martoba – Jorlang Hataran (26.5 km)
2. Jorlang Hataran – Girsang S. Bolon (27.5 km)
3. Girsang S. Bolon – Parapat (10.7 km)

The map provided by the North Sumatra government also shows a line to Raya, though there is no other mention of this section.

Medan-Lake Toba Railway maps


[Map of Medan-Lake Toba Railway.]

Siantar-Parapat track plan

Links and resources

Siantar – Parapat Railway – Project description from the North Sumatra Invest office.
Siantar-Parapat segments

News archive

2017

Investors interested to develop Lake Toba – [22/11/17]
“Chinese investors are serious in building resorts, a Medan-Pematangsiantar-Parapat-route railway and a cable car”.

Chinese investor shows interest in Medan-Lake Toba Railway – [14/07/17]
“”The Chinese investor wants to build a railroad from Medan to Lake Toba. I thought they wanted to make a small investment, but they said they have up to $10 billion available,” Chief Maritime Minister Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan said in a statement on Thursday (13/07).”

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