PT Kereta Api Indonesia
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| Locale | All of Indonesia by 2020; Java and Sumatra (Present) |
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| Dates of operation | 1945–present |
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1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) (Standard gauge) 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) (Cape gauge) 750 mm (2 ft 5 1⁄2 in) (Narrow gauge) |
| Length | 5,042 kilometres (3,133 mi) |
| Headquarters | Bandung, Indonesia |
| Website | kereta-api |
PT Kereta Api Indonesia (Persero) (English: Indonesian Railways) is the major operator of public railways in Indonesia. It is completely owned by the government and pays track access charges to the government. One of its subsidiaries, PT KAI Commuter Jabodetabek (KCJ), is operating electrified commuter service in Jakarta metropolitan area from 14 August 2008.
Indonesian Railways Co. is the latest of a long line of successive state railway companies dating from Dutch colonial days.
Indonesia gained independence in 1945, the separate systems (except the Deli Railway) were combined into the Djawatan Kereta Api. Non-state railway systems in Java retained their paper existence until 1958, when all railway lines in Indonesia were nationalised, including the Deli Railway, thereby creating the Perusahaan Negara Kereta Api (PNKA: Indonesian State Railway Corporation).
On 15 September 1970 PNKA was reorganised into Perusahaan Jawatan Kereta Api (Indonesian Railways Corporation), then reorganised into Perumka (Perusahaan Umum Kereta Api: Public Railway Corporation) on 1 August 1990. Perumka was transformed into PT Kereta Api (Persero) on 24 July 1995. Since 2010 the name of PT Kereta Api was changed into PT Kereta Api Indonesia (Persero) till now.
The headquarters of the state railway system, are located in Bandung, West Java.
In 2014, Indonesian Railways carried 300 million passengers and 30 million tonnes cargo a year. The prediction is it will be doubled in 5 years.
The total number of trackage laid in Indonesia was 7,583 kilometres (4,712 mi), although not all lines were in operation at the same time. In 1939, the total operational trackage was 4,588 kilometres (2,851 mi) (It is unclear whether dual gauge tracks were counted once or twice). The present extent of the railways is now 5,042 kilometres (3,133 mi), with the Aceh system, most of the West Sumatra system and most former steam tram lines disused, but including new tracks built alongside old tracks (double tracking projects).
Much of the branch lines constructed in the colonial era has been lifted up or abandoned in the 1980s. No major railway construction has since taken place, however, many of the busiest lines have been double tracked. The northern coast area of Java would be double tracked in May 2014 after completion of 68 kilometres Babat-Kandangan-Pasar Turi double trackage from 727 kilometres of Jakarta-Surabaya double tracked, followed by the proposed completion of a 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) double tracking project on the south coast by 2015. On 8 June 2015 Duri-Tangerang double tracks is formally used for KA Commuter Jabodetabek, but it can be also used for airport trains.
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