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Jakarta Mystical Tour slammed for incident at Bintaro railway
At least two tour participants were injured while trying to avoid an incoming commuter train in Bintaro, South Jakarta.
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Commuter line trains stop at Cilebut Station in Bogor regency, West Java, on March 12. (JP/Arif Firmansyah)
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tour organizer that had taken people to visit haunted places in Jakarta found itself in hot water after an incident caused injuries to tour participants at a railway section in Bintaro, South Jakarta.
Participants have demanded compensation and refunds from Biang Overlander, the tour organizer of the Jakarta Mystical Tour, after participants were injured on Nov. 1 at the Bintaro railway.
The railway is reportedly haunted after a deadly train crash that killed 100 people in 1987 and another crash that claimed seven lives in 2013.
A participant of the Nov. 1 tour, Manta, said 15 people were on the evening tour. It began when they were picked up by a microbus at a meeting point in Kuningan, South Jakarta, at 7 p.m..
The group then visited several locations that were known to be haunted: Prasasti Park in Central Jakarta, Toko Merah (Red Store) in Kota Tua, West Jakarta, the Jakarta History Museum’s bunker, Ancol Bridge, before going to Bintaro.
The group arrived at the railway at 11:20 p.m. and by 11:45 p.m., one of the tour guides told the participants that they were free to take pictures before they left.
Allowing participants to go down to the railway tracks had been part of the tour despite state-owned train operator PT Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI) forbidding such practices.
