Get Ready! Karet KRL Station Will Be Closed

Karet Station. (Photo: Special)

JAKARTA - Minister of State-Owned Enterprises (BUMN) Erick Thohir revealed the plan to close Karet Station.

The station no longer serves up and down KRL Commuter Line passengers.

This plan, continued Erick, is part of improving the railway ecosystem.

He said this step was also to optimize performance.

"This is what was said earlier how to build an ecosystem like earlier. Maybe in Karet (State), it will be closed," Erick told reporters, quoted Thursday, January 2.

Meanwhile, Director of Business and Institutional Development of PT Kereta Api Indonesia (Persero) Rudi Asaturridha said, if the closure of Karet Station is realized, KRL passengers will be served up and down from BNI City Station.

Furthermore, Rudi also said, PT KAI will build a hallway that can be accessed by pedestrians from BNI City Station to Karet Station.

"So if someone wants to go to Karet, he just has to walk. We have made the hallway to BNI City," said Rudi.

Rudi explained that the plan to close Karet Station departed for a very close station distance condition with BNI City Station, so it was no longer efficient. Where the distance between the two stations is approximately only 2.9 kilometers (km).

"Actually, we are close together, so it is no longer effective. For KRL, everything goes up and down here," he said.

The President Director of KAI Commuter (KCI), Asdo Artriviyanto, explained that the plan to close Karet Station is still being discussed with the relevant ministries, namely the Ministry of Transportation (Kemenhub).

According to Asdo, the official decision of Karet Station will be closed if it has been stipulated in the 2025 Railway Travel Graph (Gapeka).

"It's time for us to wait for Gapeka's adjustment," said Asdo.