Problem With Your Pre-paid Card

It has been ages since I last posted here, I know... Probably because I have nothing to tell you other than the buses getting few and fewer within these last couple of months. The people is getting crazier all the time...In short, there seems nothing the passengers could do about it... Just accept them as facts of life.

ANyway, like I have said in many of my postings here...if you are going to stay here in Jakarta for quite a while there there is nothing wrong to have at least one pre-paid card. But on second thought, let's make it two. Why? Here are the reasons:

1. Dude, this is Jakarta... You are probably going to encounter your first time of getting mugged on the bus. Seriously. Pickpockets are here and there in almost every public transportation. Not to mention mall or any public places. If you only have one and you put it in your pocket...well... Do I need to explain more?
Shortcut: buy another pre-paid card that will cost you IDR 40.000,-. The price for the card is IDR 20.000,- and the rest will be used to pay the fare.

FINALLY

Few days ago, I saw this announcement about e-ticket.

Start from 11th of August 2014, passengers will have to use E-Ticket for busway or Trans Jakarta at these several bus stop :

Need To Know ABout E-Ticket

If you are here in Jakarta and wish to try our public transportation, maybe you should try E-ticket. Okay, this is my third posting in a row about e-ticket. Now you are all going to think I am their sales person. I can assure you that I am not :)

Anyway, I think from various cards only FLAZZ Card that can be used to buy ticket for both TransJakarta (known as Busway) and Commuter Line.

The things that you need to know about using Flazz Card is:

1. You can buy Flazz Card at certain bus stop for Trans Jakarta. The balance of this newly purchased card usually at IDR 20.000,- or IDR 50.000,- depends which one is available.

2. If you are using busway before 07.00 AM then the bus fare is only at IDR 2.000,-  After 07.00 AM, the bus fare is IDR 3.500,-
Once you swipe the Flazz Card, the fare will be deducted from the balance.

3. If you are traveling around Jakarta with Commuter Line, the fare will be calculated from how far your route is.

4. You can use Flazz Card (and other cards from various Banks; you may refer from here) , to purchase ticket for more than 1 person. As long as you have enough balance to cover for them all.

5. You can only use Flazz Card (and e-ticket from Commuter Line) for yourself. Because the fare will be deducted after you arrived at the destination not before.

6. You can use Flazz Card until there is only zero balance if you travel by busway. Like for example, there is available balance about IDR 4.000,- Then you can use it to buy 2 tickets for morning fare. And only 1 ticket for one person after 07.00 AM

7. You can't use Flazz Card if there is only available balance : IDR 10.000,- to travel by Commuter Line. So you need to make sure you have sufficient balance.

8. If you have registered account with BCA, then you may have ATM that will enable you to top up the balance of your FLAZZ CARD. You may top the balance starting from IDR 20.000,-

If not..., then you probably just get a new one at the nearest bus stop for busway or at train station and tossed the old one. Or, keep it as a souvenir :)

Jakarta This Cloudy Morning

Here are photos taken from TransJakarta Bus Stop Harmoni this morning:

Harmoni Bus Stop This Morning

Rain pouring down heavily since last night and this is the look of the river taken from Harmoni Bus stop on 29th January 2014.

Here are news about TransJakarta :

Bigger TransJakarta (hopefully soon)

New buses for TransJakarta (when? where? which? What? Really?)

NOWHERE SAFE (especially for female passengers)

Happy Birthday to Busway aka TransJakarta

TransJakarta will celebrate their 10 years operation on 25 January 2014. To celebrate it, they give 50% discount to e-ticket users (e-ticket BRI, BNI, BCA, Bank Mandiri, Bank DKI, and Bank Mega) . The special discount started today 15  January 2014 until 22 January 2014. However, if you buy the ticket using cash as usual then the regular price still apply.

Happy Birthday to TransJakarta and hopefully the service will be getting better every day.

E-Ticket TransJakarta

Since April 21, 2013 e-ticket has been officially used in several bus stop for busways. Not all ready to for the use of e-ticketing. So, we still need to prepare small changes to buy regular ticket. It is still two thousand Rupiahs started around 5 AM untlil 7 AM. After that we have to pay three thousand and five hundred Rupiah.

E-ticket

Taken from this site

Right now, if you take trip using busway on their first corridor (BLOK M to KOTA) , e-ticket already available for you.

A pity I only have a brochure in Indonesian as follow. Perhaps you can read the detail here and hopefully help to give you uselful information.

Manner, mind you

Like I said before... Using the bus will allowing us to meet with so many people with so many personalities

Previously, I went out using the bus and as usual I did not get an empty seat and have to stand. Waiting for someone else getting ready to their bus stop and leave me a seat... Finally, after half of the journey a guy sitting next to me stand up... He was about to leave... Happily I was preparing myself to sit when suddenly a woman coming out from nowhere slip behind me and just sat there!!!

Oh dear! We still have that no manner kind of people nowadays

Actually, when we said that today's generation lack of manner, ehm...have we ever wondered from whom they pick up the attitude? Obviously from the family, right? THat woman who stole the seat is about my age...oh wait..., now I am positive she is older...(no way I am about the same age as her)... If she was with her childern, she would have given them an outstandingly bad manner to them. They would think, oh my Mom could do this...so why couldn't we?

That's not all the bad examples that I have seen from parents... Another example is take things too easy... So, a few months ago women separated from men during queuing. Then there was a group of one family entered the bus stop. The daughter then said to her Mom that they should be queuing here and her Dad should be at the other one. Good girl... But the mother simply said to her daughter that the rule does not need to be followed... She could not pick another answer that was not give any indication to her daughter that is okay to break the rule.

Inside the busway I often saw teenagers just sitting around does not care that there was a pregnant lady in front of them. Not until there is an official told them to stand up and give their seat to the pregnant lady.

Even there is a sign indicating that no food and drinks allowed inside the busway, still I saw a mother given meal for her children... Oh, they are not infant... They are teens...probably around 10 - 13 years old... Why I even notice? Because one of them throw up and make a mess on the busway's floor. The official look at the mother sourly... While the other passenger give the killing looks... The smell..., ugh...

So, if youngster are without manner, ask...whose fault is that?

Oh yes, if you meet with people without manner like them..., just ignore them... Not at the same level to make a scene with