Kurnia Togar P. Tanjung – Disruptive innovations developed by ride-hailing companies have transformed the transportation market in Indonesia.
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January 16, 2020
Jakarta – Bus operators have complained that 20 percent blended biodiesel (B20) has caused their engines to run poorly, providing a cautionary message for future developments as Indone
January 7, 2020
Jakarta – National flag carrier Garuda Indonesia has issued a formal apology for an incident in which a passenger and her family were "detained" after Garuda crew members accused her h
January 6, 2020
Jakarta – In the latest of a string of incidents that reflect poorly on the airline, a Garuda Indonesia passenger has claimed that she and her family were "detained" by Garuda employee
December 31, 2019
Norman Harsono, Jakarta – The Downstream Oil and Gas Regulatory Agency (BPH Migas) has fixed next year's allocation of subsidized fuels at 26.87 million kiloliters (kL), up 3 percent f
December 30, 2019
Riska Rahman, Tangerang, Banten – National flag carrier Garuda Indonesia is optimistic that it will book profit this year despite a change in asset value following the termination of i
December 27, 2019
Fajar Pebrianto, Jakarta – Garuda Indonesia Group saw a decline of 2.1 million passengers year-on-year (yoy) in Q3/2019.
Beritasatu, Bengkulu – Brake failure and driving negligence were suspected to be the cause of the Sriwijaya bus accident on Monday that killed 35 people in Pagar Alam, South Sumatra, r
December 26, 2019
Jakarta – Indonesia next year will offer more airport management projects to foreign investors after awarding its first to a foreign company on Thursday, the transportation minister sa
Antara, Nur Yasmin, Jakarta – The Indonesian National Air Carrier Association, or Inaca, proposed a one-price policy on jet fuel on Thursday, citing sharp price disparity between the e
December 24, 2019
At least 25 people have been killed after a passenger bus plunged into a ravine on Indonesia's Sumatra island after its brakes apparently malfunctioned.
December 13, 2019
Jakarta – State-owned railway operator PT Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI) will build a new train line to connect Kebon Kawung Station in the city of Bandung, West Java, to Tegalluar Station
December 12, 2019
Aichi Halik, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo on Thursday launched the new Jakarta-Cikampek elevated toll road, a key infrastructure expected to unravel traffic gridlock in ind
Jakarta – Construction of the new Soekarno-Hatta International Airport II in Karawang, West Java, is expected to commence in 2028, according to the local administration.
Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has inaugurated the Jakarta-Cikampek II toll road, expressing hope that the country's longest elevated toll road will reduce congestion on one
December 11, 2019
Bogor, West Java – While several foreign automakers have decided to leave Indonesia, Germany's Mercedes-Benz plans to continue operating its Indonesian assembly and sales subsidiaries,
December 7, 2019
Jakarta – Indonesia has been named the third-most spammed country in the world by Swedish-based smartphone application Truecaller, a significant jump from last year's 16th position.
Jakarta (Antara) – A landslide hit railway in the area of Cicewol Village, Sukabumi, West Java, on Saturday, December 7, canceling four train schedules of Sukabumi-Bogor's KA Pangrango
December 6, 2019
We can now put knee-high concrete barriers among the list of things ineffective at controlling the oftentimes out-of-control Jakarta motorists.
Riza Roidila Mufti, Jakarta – The Garuda Indonesia Cabin Crew Union (Ikagi) has thanked State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) Minister Erick Thohir for dismissing Ari Askhara as the national
December 4, 2019
Jakarta – The Greater Jakarta Transportation Agency (BPTJ) is mulling whether to build an LRT or a cable car system to accommodate visitors to the popular tourist destination of Puncak
December 3, 2019
Lenny Tristia Tambun, Jakarta – Since entering service on March 24, the MRT in Jakarta has transported nearly 20 million commuters, proving once again that residents of the capital and
Francisca Christy Rosana, Jakarta – The Public Works and Public Housing Minister Basuki Hadimuljono announced that the government will have five new functionally operational toll road
November 29, 2019
Herman, Jakarta – The government is expecting two million electric motorcycles to roll off the local production line by 2025 – 20 percent of the total number of motorcycle production b
November 27, 2019
Thresa Sandra Desfika, Jakarta – The operator of Jakarta's mass rapid train, MRT Jakarta, is on course to book a profit in its first year of operation, paving the way to become a publi
November 26, 2019
Nasori, Jakarta – South Korean automotive giant Hyundai Motor Company has announced a $1.55 billion investment plan to develop electric vehicles in Indonesia over the next decade.
November 25, 2019
Jakarta – Starting Monday, people who rent electric scooters and ride them on roads and bicycle lanes outside the area designated for micromobility vehicles in Jakarta will face a fine
November 20, 2019
Carlos Roy Fajarta, Jakarta – Kereta Commuter Indonesia, or KCI, the operator of the Greater Jakarta Commuter Line train, has registered an average of more than a million passengers pe
November 17, 2019
Jakarta (Antara) – The Ministry of Transportation of the Republic of Indonesia has signed two international agreements on air transportation during a series of meetings in Hanoi, Vietn
November 16, 2019
Jakarta (Antara) – President Joko "Jokowi " Widodo targeted to extend the Sumatra toll road construction to reach the Aceh Province as the land acquisition process for the mega project
November 13, 2019
Nur Yasmin, Jakarta – The government is looking to develop an amphibious aircraft in the next five years to solve the perennial problem of inter-island transportation in the archipelag
November 12, 2019
Jakarta – A man named Samsul of Bulukumba, South Sulawesi, has completed a decades-long venture to open a road for his fellow villagers through a wild jungle.
November 8, 2019
Sausan Atika, Jakarta – Netizens are having a good laugh at a social media post showing an engineer apparently buying goods while stopping the train at a railway crossing.
Jakarta – The next section of the MRT Jakarta, which will span 8.3 kilometers from the Hotel Indonesia traffic circle to Kota in West Jakarta, will have seven underground stations at S
November 1, 2019
Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – National flag carrier Garuda Indonesia posted a $122.42 million profit in the third quarter, in a strong comeback from its $114.08 million loss in the same p
October 29, 2019
Jessica Damiana, Tabita Diela, Jakarta – One year on from the Lion Air plane crash that killed 189, relatives and friends of victims held prayer vigils and cast flower petals into the
Grieving relatives tossed flowers into the sea Tuesday where an Indonesian Lion Air jet crashed a year ago, killing all 189 on board, after a final accident report pointed to plane des
October 25, 2019
Simon Calder – Boeing started the sequence of events that led to the first 737 Max crash by installing an anti-stall system without telling pilots about its existence, purpose and pitf
October 23, 2019
Mechanical and design problems with a Boeing flight control system were key factors in the crash of a Lion Air plane last year, Indonesian investigators told victims' families in a bri
October 21, 2019
Karim Raslan – The Nggapulu – named after a glacier-covered peak in Papua's Jayawijaya range – is a German-built ship that forms part of the fleet operated by Pelni, Indonesia's nation
October 18, 2019
We've been through this before, but this time it's official: cell phones obtained outside of legally recognized means may soon no longer function in Indonesia, as the government today
Jakarta – Indonesia has issued regulations to allow authorities to block smartphones purchased on the black market, in a bid to encourage investors to produce mobile phones in the coun
October 17, 2019
Riza Roidila Mufti, Jakarta – National flag carrier Garuda Indonesia is working hand-in-hand with nine other state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to bring PT Merpati Nusantara Airlines back
October 16, 2019
On Friday, TransJakarta recommissioned buses made by Chinese manufacturers ZhongTong, officials have confirmed, which had previously been mired in scandals related to passenger safety
Jakarta (Antara) – MRT Jakarta, the operator of the city's mass rapid transit train network, has collaborated with Gojek Indonesia, one of the largest ride-hailing companies in the cou
October 10, 2019
Jakarta – Manggarai Station in South Jakarta will serve long-distance trains by 2022, replacing in that function Gambir Station in Central Jakarta, which will be left to serve commuter
October 7, 2019
Bandung was once seen as the ideal weekend getaway destination for Jakartans wanting to escape the capital's maddening macet, but a new study showed that the West Java city has become
September 30, 2019
Nur Yasmin, Jakarta – Construction on the 82.7-kilometer elevated section of the China-backed Jakarta-Bandung Fast Train project commenced on Monday.
September 23, 2019
Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – State-owned airport operator PT Angkasa Pura II has recorded a rise in low-cost carrier (LCC) international flights departing from Soekarno-Hatta Internat
September 22, 2019
Bayu Marhaenjati, Jakarta – The National Police on Sunday introduced an electronic driver's license that can also function as a digital payment card and record traffic violations by it