Cikini Station is a

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located on Jl. Cikini Raya,

Cikini, Menteng Cikini is an administrative village in the Menteng district of Indonesia. It has a postal code of 10330. Cikini has a long history that goes all the way back to the colonial period and still there are many structures which were built during coloni ...

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. This station is only served by

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commuter trains from to and .

History

Cikini Station was originally a small

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which was built as a replacement for the Dierentuin railway stop. At that time, the Batavia City Council considered the location of the Dierentuin Stop to be bizarre and impractical for the development of the Gondangdia and Menteng areas. So that the Batavia City Council ordered the

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(SS) to build a new train stop as a replacement for the Dierentuin Stop. SS built 2 small bus stops located in Gondangdia and Menteng respectively. This railway stop was inaugurated in 1926 and was named Tjikini. Until the late 1980s, to the south of this station, before Manggarai Station there used to be a train stop, namely Pegangsaan Stop which is located right on the north side of Jalan Diponegoro. The Pegangsaan railway stop was demolished in the late 1980s, when an elevated railroad was built between

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and Jakarta Kota. From this railway stop, there was a branch line to Salemba Station. Before the 1990s there was a railway track branching off to an opium factory located in

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and further on to the Rajawali–Jatinegara railway. After the factory closed in 1981, this side-track was dismantled. Cikini Station, which is currently active, is an elevated railway station which is located in the southernmost part of the

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. On 5 June 1992, President

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along with Mrs. Tien Soeharto and the ranks in the government inaugurated the elevated railway by taking the KRL from Gambir to

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. Since 1 August 2019, this station, together with

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, UI and Taman Kota Stations, has officially abolished the sale of single trip cards (Guaranteed Daily Tickets/''THB'') for KRL Commuter Lines. This is because the majority of KRL Commuter Line passengers are used to using multi-trip cards and electronic money. In this way, long queues to buy KRL tickets can be cut. However, service users can still tap-in/tap-out with ''THB'' cards at this station.

Building and layout

The Cikini Station building is modern with a touch of

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panels which are still maintained to this day and have never been painted, only the platform pillars are now repainted to a

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color. It is known that the project, which began in February 1988, spent Rp. 432.5 billion and was not fully completed when it was inaugurated, so that it was fully operational a year later. This station has only two railway lines. On the south side of this station there is a branch to the upper floor of the Manggarai Station, as part of the Manggarai Station renovation project.

Services

The following is a list of train services at the Cikini Station.

Passenger services

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** Bogor Line, to and ** Bogor Line (Nambo branch), to and

Supporting transportation

Incidents

* On 31 August 2009 at 08:00 WIB, a man was stung by an electric cable while boarding the KRL 513 carriage from

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. As a result of this incident, the electricity between

– Gambir had to be turned off in order to evacuate the victim. This incident caused several KRL trips to be disrupted.

References

External links

PT KAI
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