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View all search resultsJakarta’s power grid fully restored after evening blackout: PLN
According to PLN, the blackout, which began at approximately 5:57 p.m., originated from a disturbance at a main substation, affecting distribution networks across multiple districts.
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Passengers wait for the arrival of a mass rapid transit (MRT) train on Sept. 4, 2025, at Blok M Station in South Jakarta. The station was affected by a blackout that occurred on April 9. (Antara/Muhammad Rizky Febriansyah)
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ower supplies across Jakarta have been fully restored, state-owned electricity utility PLN has said, following a major disruption on Thursday evening that sent several neighborhoods into darkness, knocked out traffic systems and disrupted MRT services.
The blackout, which began at approximately 5:57 p.m., originated from a disturbance at a main substation, affecting distribution networks across multiple districts.
PLN UID Jakarta Raya senior manager of communications and public affairs, Haris Andika, in a statement issued on Thursday, assured the public that normalization efforts had been completed.
“By 8:00 p.m., 100 percent of the affected systems were back online. PLN guarantees that all areas that experienced supply disruptions from the substation have returned to normal,” Haris said in a statement, as quoted by Kompas.com.
The neighborhoods hit by the outage included Angke, Kebon Jeruk, Kebayoran Lama, Kebayoran Baru, Mampang, Ketapang and Karet.
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In many areas, traffic lights failed, leading to gridlock and chaotic scenes on major thoroughfares, particularly along Jalan Raya Pangeran Tubagus Angke in West Jakarta, where vehicles were seen moving erratically through unlit intersections, Kompas.com reported.
