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The earliest record of Jakarta as a coastal settlement and port can be traced to the Indianized kingdom of Tarumanagara as early as the fourth century. In AD 39, King Purnawarman established Sunda Pura as the kingdom's new capital city, located on the northern coast of Java. [5]
The Greater Jakarta Integrated Mass Transit System is an integrated transport network that primarily serves the area of Jakarta metropolitan area and surrounding areas. The system commenced operations in December 2011 with the introduction of commuter rail service on the existing rail between Jakarta and satellite cities.
PT Mass Rapid Transit Jakarta (Perseroda) is a municipally owned perseroan terbatas founded by the Government of Special Capital Region of Jakarta to operate the Jakarta MRT system. Its establishment was approved by the provincial parliament (DPRD) on 10 June 2008 and the company's incorporation was formally notarized on 17 June 2008.
Jakarta [b] (/ dʒ ə ˈ k ɑːr t ə /; Indonesian pronunciation: [dʒaˈkarta] ⓘ, Betawi: Jakartè), officially the Special Capital Region of Jakarta (Indonesian: Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta; DKI Jakarta) and formerly known as Batavia until 1949, is the capital city of Indonesia and an autonomous region at the provincial level.
Jakarta was awarded 2021 global Sustainable Transport Award (STA) for integrated public transportation system. [2] The city prioritized development of road networks, which were mostly designed to accommodate private vehicles. [3] A notable feature of Jakarta's present road system is the toll road network.
The Jakarta LRT groundbreaking was held on 22 June 2016, coinciding with the 489th Anniversary of the City of Jakarta. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] In December 2016, PT Wijaya Karya was appointed as the contractor for the LRT construction project worth Rp5.29 trillion (around US$347.6 million). [ 14 ]
Transjakarta (stylised in all-lowercase, often erroneously called Busway, [5] sometimes shortened as TJ and branded as TiJe) or Jakarta BRT is a bus rapid transit (BRT) system in Jakarta, Indonesia. The first BRT system in Southeast Asia, it commenced operations on 15 January 2004 to provide a fast public transport system to help reduce rush ...
The proportion of the core city's (Jakarta) population to that of the entire metropolitan area also declined significantly. In 2020, the population of Jakarta was only 30.4% of the total population of the Jakarta metropolitan area, continuing the decline from 54.6% in 1990 to 43.2% in 2000 and 35.5% in 2010.