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Palur Railway Station
Palur Station (PL) is a class-III railway station located in Dagen, Jaten, Karanganyar Regency, Central Java, Indonesia. The station is located at an altitude of +93 meters and only serves KAI Commuter Yogyakarta Line. The station is about 100 meters to the northeast from Karanganyar main highway (''Jalan Raya Karanganyar'') and not far from the national highway linking nearby city of Surakarta and Surabaya in East Java. The station was built by Staatsspoorwegen, originally with three tracks. After the double track to began operation on 5 March 2019 and to on 20 August 2019, the number of tracks became four. The Staatsspoorwegen-built building was demolished to make way for the tracks, and replaced with a new building located southeast of the old one. Palur Station was previously serving ''Prambanan Express'' commuter rail to until December 2011. Between 2021 and 2022, the railway electrification extended into the station, as the preparation for the planned extension of KAI Com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Java
Java (; id, Jawa, ; jv, ꦗꦮ; su, ) is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea to the north. With a population of 151.6 million people, Java is the world's most populous island, home to approximately 56% of the Indonesian population. Indonesia's capital city, Jakarta, is on Java's northwestern coast. Many of the best known events in Indonesian history took place on Java. It was the centre of powerful Hindu-Buddhist empires, the Islamic sultanates, and the core of the colonial Dutch East Indies. Java was also the center of the Indonesian struggle for independence during the 1930s and 1940s. Java dominates Indonesia politically, economically and culturally. Four of Indonesia's eight UNESCO world heritage sites are located in Java: Ujung Kulon National Park, Borobudur Temple, Prambanan Temple, and Sangiran Early Man Site. Formed by volcanic eruptions due to geologic subduction of the Aust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surakarta
Surakarta ( jv, ꦯꦸꦫꦏꦂꦠ), known colloquially as Solo ( jv, ꦱꦭ; ), is a city in Central Java, Indonesia. The 44 km2 (16.2 sq mi) city adjoins Karanganyar Regency and Boyolali Regency to the north, Karanganyar Regency and Sukoharjo Regency to the east and west, and Sukoharjo Regency to the south. On the eastern side of Solo lies Solo River (Bengawan Solo). Its built-up area, consisting of Surakarta City and 59 districts spread over seven regencies ("Greater Solo Area", formerly Special Region of Surakarta), was home to 3,649,254 inhabitants as of 2010 census, around half million of which reside in the city proper. Surakarta is the birthplace of the current President of Indonesia, Joko Widodo. He served as Mayor of Surakarta from 2005 to 2012. History Hominid habitation in the region of Surakarta is evidenced from roughly one million years ago, the age of the " Java Man" skeleton found 80 kilometers upstream. Another famous early hominid from this area i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adisumarmo International Airport
Adisumarmo International Airport ( id, Bandar Udara Internasional Adisumarmo) is an airport in Boyolali Regency, Central Java, Indonesia. It is located 14 km north of Surakarta city. It is the main airport of Boyolali and Surakarta and the surrounding area, also known as Greater Solo. The airport also serves as an alternative airport to Adisutjipto International Airport in Yogyakarta during a disaster, such as during the 2006 Yogyakarta earthquake and the 2010 Mount Merapi eruption. The airport also serves as the base of the Indonesian Air Force which is known as Lanud Adisumarmo. However, the airport do not serve as a home base to any combat squadron of the Indonesian Air Force. Instead, it serves as the training institute for future Indonesian Air Force cadets. The airbase also oversee the air defense of Surakarta and the surrounding area. Lion Air declared the airport as a regional hub in 2016. History The airport was formerly called Panasan Air Force Base, because ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Batik Solo Trans
Batik Solo Trans (abbreviated BST) is a bus rapid transit system serving the city of Surakarta, Central Java. Launched in 2010, it currently operates 12 corridors. Summary Batik Solo Trans was launched on 1 September 2010 by then-mayor of Surakarta Joko Widodo. The service, which initially had only a single corridor and 38 stations, was expanded with its second corridor in 2014 and a third in 2018. In 2017, estimates place that 5,500-6,000 people used the first corridor daily, with another 3,500-4,000 in the second. The city's transportation board claimed that around 5,000 used the third corridor service daily. While it has some features of BRT systems, BST has low passenger throughput and lack a right of way in roads. There were 90 buses in service on 2021. The BST also uses local angkot to act as feeders to the service. Bus Routes Batik Solo Trans has 6 BRT routes, which are: * Corridor 1: Adisumarmo Airport - Palur Bus Terminal (''via Purwosari Train Station'') * Corridor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Republik Indonesia
''Radio Republik Indonesia'' (Radio of the Republic of Indonesia, abbreviated as RRI), legally ''Lembaga Penyiaran Publik (LPP) Radio Republik Indonesia'' ( Public Broadcasting Institution Radio of the Republic of Indonesia), is a public radio network of Indonesia. Founded on 11 September 1945, it is the first radio network in Indonesia. RRI headquarters are located on Medan Merdeka Barat Street in Central Jakarta. RRI has several radio channels broadcasts all over Indonesia and abroad to serve all Indonesian citizens throughout the nation and overseas. RRI also provides information about Indonesia to people around the world. Voice of Indonesia is the division for overseas broadcasting. History RRI was established on 11 September 1945 by several figures who previously operated several Japanese radio stations in 6 cities. A meeting attended by the station delegates at Adang Kadarusman house on Menteng resulted in the decision to set up ''Radio Republik Indonesia'' by choosing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prambanan Express
Prambanan Express ( id, Prambanan Ekspres), commonly abbreviated as Pramex (in English) and Prameks (in Indonesian) is a commuter rail service that operates between Yogyakarta, Special Region of Yogyakarta and Kutoarjo, Purworejo Regency, Central Java in Indonesia. The service, which first operated in 1994, covers a distance of about 64 kilometers and operates using diesel multiple unit trains. It was previously serving Yogyakarta–Solo for 26 years before it was electrified in 2021. The train was once operated by 6th Operational Area of Yogyakarta of the national railway company, Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI). As part of transition to electrified commuter railway service, KAI's subsidiary KAI Commuter took over the operations of Prameks on 5 October 2020. History ''Kuda Putih'', one of the ancestors of DMU-based commuter rail services in Indonesia. The predecessor of Prameks was known as ''Kuda Putih'' (the ''White Horse'' train in English), as there was two horses decoration ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Staatsspoorwegen
''Staatsspoorwegen'' ( Dutch for State Railways, full name: ''Dienst der Staatsspoor- en Tramwegen in Nederlandsch–Indië'' (State Railways and Tramways Service in the Netherlands Indies, ''SS en T''), commonly abbreviated as SS) was a railway company owned by the Dutch East Indies colonial government. The company was one of the companies that were transferred to the present Kereta Api Indonesia after Indonesian independence in 1945. Staatsspoorwegen operated railways in three narrow gauge rails: 1.067 mm (3 ft 6 in), 750 mm (2 ft 5 1⁄2 in) and 600 mm (1 ft 11 5⁄8 in). The 1,067 mm tracks are for heavy railway lines, while the 750 and 600 mm are only used for tramway lines. History According to the ''Verslag der Handelingen van Staten-Generaal'' (Report of the Proceedings of the States General), there are proposals for the connection of two Nederlandsch-Indische Spoorweg Maatschappij (NIS) railway lines which are extended to Surabaya and continued to Pasuruan, and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Java
East Java ( id, Jawa Timur) is a province of Indonesia located in the easternmost hemisphere of Java island. It has a land border only with the province of Central Java to the west; the Java Sea and the Indian Ocean border its northern and southern coasts, respectively, while the narrow Bali Strait to the east separates Java from Bali by around . Located in eastern Java, the province also includes the island of Madura (which is connected to Java by the longest bridge in Indonesia, the Suramadu Bridge), as well as the Kangean islands and other smaller island groups located further east (in the northern Bali Sea) and Masalembu archipelagos in the north. Its capital is Surabaya, the second largest city in Indonesia, a major industrial center and also a major business center. Banyuwangi is the largest regency in East Java and the largest on the island of Java. The province covers an area of , and according to the 2010 Census, there were 37,476,757 people residing in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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