Train ticket sales hit Rp 15b mark

Train ticket sales hit Rp 15b mark

JAKARTA (JP): The Jakarta office of state railway company
Perumka has managed to earn a total of Rp 15.08 billion (US$1.73
million) in ticket sales from Jan. 9 to Jan. 20, a company
spokesman said Thursday.

Perumka headquarters spokesman Helmi Aziz said the amount
earned during the 12-day period was collected from 77 trains --
including nine extra trains put on just for that period -- which
carried more than half a million Idul Fitri holiday makers from
the capital to other cities around Java.

Helmi however refused to reveal the company's profit but said
that Perumka was having a very "tough time" dealing with
management and operational costs.

Data from the Perumka Jakarta office showed a total of 650,321
people leaving via the city's eight main train stations between
Jan. 4 and Jan. 20.

The ticket sales figures recorded by the Jakarta office is
already more than half of the total sales by all train stations
in Java, which reached nearly Rp 28.8 billion during the same
period.

He said data from the Perumka offices in Sumatra had not yet
been calculated.

According to Helmi, his office would not be able to reach its
target of Rp 2 billion in profit during this Idul Fitri season
due to the skyrocketing prices of locomotive spare parts. (ylt)