Gambir Station And Pasar Senen Still Crowded Homecomers, KAI Records Increased Passenger Arrival

Illustration of the crowds of train passengers at Pasar Senen Station. (Between/Maria Cicilia Galuh)

PT Kereta Api Indonesia recorded that the volume of service users departing at Eid from Gambir Station and Pasar Senen was still high even though they had entered the third day of Lebaran 2023 (H+1).

Head of Public Relations of KAI Daop 1 Jakarta Eva Chairunisa said, around 38,000 Passengers Depart from Gambir Station and Pasar Senen, this number is still quite high when compared to normal times.

"The observation of departures at Gambir Station and Senen Market on April 24, 2023, passenger occupancy is still at 90 percent of the total seating availability. Today there are around 23,400 passengers departing from PasarSenen Station with 32 train services operating.

"As for Gambir Station, the volume of passengers departing today reaches around 14,600 with service 38 trains operating," Eva said in a statement to the media, Monday, April 24.

He continued, in total, the scheduled departure of 12 to 24 April was recorded at around 483,000 service users departing using long-distance trains from Gambir Station and Pasar Senen in the Daop 1 Jakarta area at Lebaran moment.

"The peak of the homecoming flow with seating occupancy reaching 100 percent occurred on April 18 to 22, 2023," he added.

Meanwhile, based on data, said Eva, Monday, April 24, 2023, around 628 thousand tickets for the departure of the Eid Transport period from Gambir Station and Pasar Senen have been sold.

Of these, the majority of orders were made for the departure schedule on a favorite date, namely April 14 to 23, 2023. Based on ticket data sold on these dates, the occupancy rate of passenger volume has reached 90 to 100 percent with the highest passenger volume departing recorded on April 18, 19, 20.21 and April 22, 2023, where the occupancy rate or seat occupancy reached 100 percent.

Meanwhile, for the backflow, Eva explained that starting April 24, 2023, the number of passengers arriving in the Daop 1 Jakarta area began to increase, in total today there are around 40 thousand users who arrived.

"This number has increased by up to 2 times from normal times," he concluded.