JAKARTA (Antara): Transportation Minister Hatta Radjasa said Friday only some 40 percent out of 500,000 daily passengers of commuter trains in the Greater Jakarta bought tickets.
It caused state-owned railway operator PT KAI loses a lot of money.
Therefore, he added PT KAI had carried out various efforts to force train passengers to buy tickets including to minimize accesses to railway stations.
"Market in the Greater Jakarta is some 500,000 (per day)...while, those who pay for tickets only reach some 200,000," he was quoted by Antara news agency as saying when elaborating the detail plan of commuter train revitalization program.
Many commuter train passengers prefer to illegally pay ticket checkers on train cars rather than to buy tickets at stations because they spent less money.
Ticket checkers are happy to receive Rp 1,000 (some 10 cent U.S. dollar) of illegal payment from a passenger although the ticket price from Jakarta to Banten's town of Rangkasbitung, for example, is Rp 2,500 per trip.
Hatta said his ministry allocated Rp 450 billion of fund to carry out renovation programs of railway facilities across in 2007 and 2008.The total train passengers across the country reach some 24 million.
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