Currently, there are very limited public transportation options in Jakarta that will get you to, or take you from, the terminals of Soekarno-Hatta International airport. But in addition to a new train service (that was supposed to have opened in July but has since been delayed to 2018) that will take passengers from Manggarai Station in South Jakarta to Soetta, the-soon-to-be-opened Corridor 13 of the Transjakarta busway system will eventually be able to get travelers to and from the airport as well.
Corridor 13 primarily consists of stops along a newly constructed highway built exclusively for Transjakarta buses. It is currently undergoing final checks before it opens for service on August 16.
Currently, the corridor starts in Tendean, South Jakarta, and ends at Puri Beta station in Tangerang. However, plans are in the works to extend the line to Tangerang’s Poris Plawad Terminal, which will connect to the airport railway line.
“So that South Jakartans can go to the airport through Poris,” Tangerang Mayor Arief R Wismansyah said on Thursday as quoted by Tempo.
Arief also said that he was in discussions with the Jakarta transit authority to move more inter-province train routes to Poris so that not as many travelers going to other parts of Java would have to go through Jakarta’s Gambir Station.
The planned train route to Soetta is likely to cost most travelers over Rp 100,000, so with a current maximum tariff of Rp 3,500, taking the Transjakarta most of the way should be significantly cheaper.
