The Jakarta Post: http://buff.ly/14F1qjj
To avoid further financial losses, city train operator PT KAI Commuter Jabodetabek (KCJ) will expect passengers to pay a deposit on e-tickets starting Thursday.
KCJ president director Tri Handoyo told reporters on Tuesday that the company had prepared 2,000 new e-ticket cards to replace existing ones.
“Passengers are obliged to deposit Rp 5,000 (46 US cents) in addition to the fare,” he said.
He said, however, that under the new system, passengers could take the cards home and use them again the next day.
“They can directly return them to the ticket booth after passing through the exit or they can keep them if they want to take the train again over a short period of time,” he said.
Tri said cards would become invalid only after they had not been used for seven days since the last trip or if a passenger failed to scan a ticket on the electronic reader at the exit gate.
The new mechanism is different from the current system, which requires passengers to insert the cards into a slot at the exit gate.
