Public Transport Connectivity in Jakarta Reaches 92 Per Cent, Regular Users at 23 Per Cent

The Governor of Jakarta, Pramono Anung, said that public transport connectivity in Jakarta has reached 92 per cent. However, the number of regular public transport users in the capital city is still around 23.6 per cent.

Although not many people use public transport, Pramono believes that people’s habits of using public transport are becoming more organised.

“Hopefully, affordable transport options, good facilities, and punctuality are important. That will make people switch to using public transport,” he said in Jakarta on Wednesday (25/2), as quoted by Antara.

Pramono said he wants people to have the habit of using public transport from their respective homes.

“I hope people don’t use private vehicles from their homes and then use Jakarta’s public transport when they arrive in Jakarta. I hope the park-and-ride facilities are near their homes,” he said.

Collaboration on park-and-ride facilities with surrounding areas

He also hopes that surrounding areas can also help build transport facilities such as comfortable bus stops. This is expected to encourage more people to switch to using public transport.

To that end, Pramono said that his administration will work with surrounding areas such as Bekasi, Tangerang, Depok, and Bogor to provide park-and-ride facilities in the surrounding areas as an effort to reduce people’s habit of using private vehicles.

If this can be realised, Pramono believes that traffic congestion in Jakarta will decrease significantly.

“Please don’t let everything become Jakarta’s burden. Because now all the transport facilities are fully Jakarta’s. Including the subsidies, which are fully Jakarta’s. I just hope that the bus stops can also be well prepared so that anyone who wants to get off doesn’t get too hot or wet,” said Pramono.

Previously, Pramono had also affirmed that Transjabodetabek will continue to operate even though there are complaints about the lack of bus stops in some surrounding areas.

According to Pramono, the increasing public interest in Transjabodetabek is a positive signal for the development of public transport across regions.

However, this must be balanced with the readiness of facilities and infrastructure, especially in surrounding areas such as Depok.

Pramono said he continues to strive to change this habit by creating various policies. One of them is to make public transport free for 15 groups of people.

In addition, Pramono also issued Governor’s Instruction (Ingub) number 6 of 2025, which requires all State Civil Servants (ASN) and employees in the Jakarta Provincial Government to use public transport every Wednesday.

Pramono also created Transjabodetabek so that residents of the surrounding areas who work in Jakarta can use public transport.

“And it has been proven that in the one year of my administration, there has been a significant increase in the number of people using public transport,” he said.

(antara/kid)