Jatinegara Station Serves Long-distance Train Passenger Departure As Of June 1

JAKARTA - PT Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI) Operational Area (Daop) 1 Jakarta informed that starting June 1, 2023, there will be four long-distance trains (KAJJ) that will stop at Jatinegara Station, East Jakarta, to serve passenger departures.

This follows the implementation of the 2023 Railway Travel Graph (Gapeka) starting June 1, 2023 to replace Gapeka 2021 which was previously used, including in the Daop 1 Jakarta area.

"When Gapeka is only implemented on June 1, there will be four KAJJ departing from Gambir Station which will also take passengers departing from Jatinegara Station. Previously, currently Jatinegara Station only serves KAJJ passengers," said Head of Public Relations of PT KAI Daop 1 Jakarta Eva Chairunisa, Monday, May 22.

Meanwhile, said Eva, Gapeka is a guideline for regulating the implementation of train travel which is described in the form of lines showing stations, time, distance, speed, and position of train travel starting from departing, stopping, coming, intersecting, and leasing, which are graphically described for control of train travel.

"The implementation of the new Gapeka will provide a number of benefits for KA service users, one of which is operational arrangements for the dismissal of KAJJ in the Daop 1 area of Jakarta," he said.

Four KAJJs that will serve passengers from Jatinegara Station starting June 1, 2023, namely KA 38F Argo Parahyangan, Gambir-Bandung connection, departing for Jatinegara Station at 06.46 WIB, KA 10 Argo Dwipangga, Gambir-Solo connection, departing for Jatinegara Station at 09.06 WIB, KA 12, Argo Sindoro, Gambir-Semarang Tawang relation, departing for Jatinegara at 16.56 WIB, and KA 36F Argo Parahyangan, Gambir-Bandung relation, departing for Jatinegara Station at 18.46 WIB.

Eva said the four KAJJs that stopped serving passengers from Jatinegara Station were trains with initial departures from Gambir Station.

"So that through the addition of passenger ride services at Jatinegara Station, it is hoped that train customers, especially from the Daop 1 Jakarta area, can have alternative stations that can be selected when leaving," said Eva.

In addition, he said, other benefits from the implementation of Gapeka 2023 that can be directly felt by customers, namely the efficiency of KAJJ departure travel time from Gambir Station and Pasar Senen Station. For the Daop 1 area of Jakarta, Gapeka 2023 provides an acceleration of KAJJ travel time of a total of 2,512 minutes per day.

"In detail, the efficiency of 880 minutes on the argo train, 585 minutes on the executive train, 648 on the mixed executive train, and 399 minutes on the economic train," said Eva.

One of the trains that experienced an acceleration of travel time was the Argo Lawu train, Gambir-Solobalapan connection, which had a shorter journey of 49 minutes, from 7 hours 44 minutes to 6 hours 55 minutes. Then the Fajar Utama Solo train, the Senen-Solobalapan Market connection, which traveled 50 minutes shorter, from the previous 8 hours 30 minutes to 7 hours 40 minutes.

In addition, in Gapeka 2023 there will also be four new KAJJs for departures from the Daop 1 Jakarta area, namely the Argo Semeru train for Gambir-Surabaya Gubeng connection departing at 06.20 WIB, the Manahan train for Gambir-Solobalapan connection departs at 10.30 WIB and 22.50 WIB, the Pandalungan train for Gambir-Surabaya Market-Jember departure at 20.05 WIB, and the Gambir-Semarang Tawang train for departure at 14.20 WIB.

"In total, there were an additional 62 train trips in the Daop 1 area of Jakarta from 1,462 trains to 1,524 trains. The addition of other trips, namely local trains and KRL," said Eva.

Through Gapeka 2023 which will be implemented on June 1, 2023, a number of KAJJ travel schedules also experienced changes in departure hours.

"For example, the Gumarang train related to Pasar Senen-Surabaya Pasarturi, which originally departed from Pasar Senen Station at 15.50 WIB, starting June 1, 2023, will depart at 20.45 WIB," he said.