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Reality check on commuter line accidents
The accidents occurred with a backdrop of significant reforms made in the past three years, with the Greater Jakarta commuter line serving 740,000 passengers per day by patiently educating people from all walks of life on the technology and etiquette of train travel.
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Workers start to lift the commuter train cars that derail in the area between Manggarai and Sudirman station in Central Jakarta on Wednesday. (kompas.com/Kahfi Dirga Cahya)
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wo accidents have occurred in as many days involving Greater Jakarta commuter trains. On Wednesday, a train derailed on its way to Sudirman Station in Central Jakarta. A week earlier, a car was hit by a commuter train between Cilebut and Bojong Gede station.
Although neither accident was fatal, the fact that at least four accidents involving commuter trains have occurred this month alone raises nagging questions on commuter safety and other lingering problems surrounding the management of the city’s railways.
The accidents occurred with a backdrop of significant reforms made in the past three years, with the Greater Jakarta commuter line serving 740,000 passengers per day by patiently educating people from all walks of life on the technology and etiquette of train travel.
Here are the incidents and service disruptions from derailments to collisions, going back to the infamous Juanda collision back in September 2015 in which 42 people were injured.
May 18, 2016
A train derailed on its way from Sudirman Station, Central Jakarta, during the morning rush hour at 6:18 a.m.The accident happened between Sudirman and Manggarai stations, serving the busy Jakarta-Bogor route.
May 13, 2016
A car was hit by a commuter train between Cilebut and Bojong Gede stations. The train was serving the Bogor-Duri route.
May 9, 2016
A 67-year-old man identified as Awigeno Soesanto died after being hit by a train transporting coal near Palmerah Station. He was waiting to cross a grade crossing as two trains neared. Once the first, a commuter train heading from Palmerah to Kebayoran, had passed, Awigeno quickly attempted to cross, without looking in the other direction, from which the coal train was approaching.
May 2, 2016
Smoke from railway tracks halted a commuter train near Kampung Bandan, on the Tanah Abang-Serpong line.
April 29, 2016
Damaged railway tracks between Duren Kalibata and Cawang stations slowed the commuter line to 5 kilometers per hour.
April 6, 2016
A Jakarta commuter line train derailed on its way from Manggarai Station in South Jakarta to Duri Station in West Jakarta. The train derailed near Sudirman Station in Central Jakarta at around 3:30 p.m. The derailment also blocked the operation of the commuter line between Bogor in West Java and Tanah Abang and Jatinegara stations in Jakarta.
March 14, 2016
A commuter train derailed between Kebayoran Station and Pondok Ranji Station. The doors were opened and passengers jumped off the train.
March 13, 2016
An unidentified man was hit by a commuter train in Kebayoran Lama, South Jakarta, at 10:15 a.m.
March 10, 2016
Commuter trains operating between Bogor and Jakarta were disrupted after an empty Senja Utama Solo train serving the route from Jakarta to Surakarta in Central Java derailed at Tanah Abang Station in Central Jakarta.
March 3, 2016
An unidentified man died instantly and his body was dismembered after being hit by a commuter train on Jl. Tanah Tinggi 1 in Johar Baru, Central Jakarta. Adj. Comr. Iskandar, the traffic unit head of the Senen Police, said the police suspected that the man had committed suicide.
Feb. 3, 2016
Signal problems between Depok in West Java and Pasar Minggu in South Jakarta affected eight of the line's 25 stops, causing trains to be backed-up.
Dec. 26, 2015
A car collided with an electric commuter line train at Tanah Kusir railway crossing in Kebayoran Lama, South Jakarta, causing minor injuries to the five people in the car.
Dec. 6, 2015
Commuters traveling from Jatinegara in East Jakarta to Bogor and vice versa faced delays following a collision between a commuter line train and a Metromini bus at a railway crossing near Angke Station in Tambora, West Jakarta.
Nov. 3, 2015
A train traveling from Serpong, Banten, to Tanah Abang in Central Jakarta caught fire before entering Rawa Buntu in Serpong. The incident did not claim any victims but it shocked passengers. Meanwhile, the Transportation Ministry said in a statement that the sparks occurred because a pantograph in car number two was broken.
Oct. 28, 2015
A commuter train en route from Bekasi in West Java to Kota Station in West Jakarta derailed shortly before Manggarai Station.
Sept. 25, 2015
An electric train from Tanah Abang in Central Jakarta collided with a motorcycle in Serpong, South Tangerang, on Thursday, causing no casualties but disrupting the commuter line schedule.
Sept. 23, 2015
Forty-two people were injured after two commuter line trains collided at Juanda Station in Central Jakarta, with one train hitting the rear of the other. ( dmr )
Sources: Various media reports
