Blok M Terminal is a type-B

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located within the commercial and entertainment quarter of

Blok M Blok M is a business and shopping quarter located in Kebayoran Baru, South Jakarta, Indonesia. It runs east from Iskandarsyah street to Bulungan street in the west. North from Falatehan street to Melawai street in the south. The development is si ...

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. As a type-B terminal, it only serves city transport buses that connects several regions in Jakarta and its surrounding cities. The terminal primarily serves

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's BRT corridors and feeder routes.

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also operate numbers of shuttle bus services from the

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and several gated communities in Greater Jakarta to Blok M terminal. Apart from DAMRI, Mayasari Bakti and Sinar Jaya also operate their bus routes to this terminal. Due to decreasing service quality, the Blok M terminal is currently under revitalization since 2024. This is the second revitalization of the terminal after the first one in 1992, which forms the current building of the terminal. The first stage was inaugurated on 24 May 2025, the rest will follow by October. Since then, the terminal is now officially termed as the Blok M Hub, although it actually refers to the newly-refurbished shopping mall within this terminal, rather than the entire terminal itself.

History

was originally built as the

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of Jakarta, prior to the city's mass urban expansion, which have 17 blocks sorted from A to S. The first block (Blok A) accidentally became a spontaneous busy terminus point (known as 'shadow terminal' (''terminal bayangan'')) of public bus routes. In 1968, then-

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proposed to build a permanent bus terminal on a plot of land in

. Since the opening, it became a new terminus for all bus services to Kebayoran Baru, which was in a form of an open-air bus terminal. In December 1990, Governor

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wanted to revitalize the terminal, by combining it with a shopping arcade (later known as Blok M Mall) on the basement level. The first revitalization cost about IDR 80 billion at the time. In September 1992, the revitalization was completed, and the terminal was reinaugurated on 3 October of the same year. The Provincial Government of Jakarta and PT. Integrasi Transit Jakarta, subsidiary of the

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, are planning to revitalize Blok M terminal once again in 2024. The plan is a part of the government to redevelop Blok M as an integrated

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zone, alongside the CSW-ASEAN TOD. The revitalization will create a direct connection from Blok M BCA MRT station and the adjacent Martha Christina Tiahahu Literacy Park into the terminal. At first, the government refurbished the building and the surroundings to provide a convinient space for cultural and culinary events. On 24 May 2025, the early stage of the revitalization was inaugurated as the Blok M Hub by the Governor of Jakarta,

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. The remaining stages is scheduled to be finished by October 2025.

Architecture and facilities

Blok M terminal is a three-storey terminal, where the first floor is the ground floor used as the platform of the terminal. The second and third floors are built underground. The second floor is used as a shopping arcade known as Blok M Hub (formerly Blok M Mall or Mal Blok M). The third floor is used as the parking area, as well as a marketplace of used cars and other automobile needs.

1st floor, platform level

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(

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) and Pantai Indah Kapuk 2 (

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), alongside Perum DAMRI, Mayasari Bakti, and Sinar Jaya buses. Line 6 is used for DAMRI shuttle buses to the

2nd floor, shopping arcade

The second floor of Blok M terminal is a

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known as Blok M Hub (formerly Blok M Mall), which used to be one of the most popular and busiest shopping malls in Jakarta between the 1990s and the 2000s. The mall was best known for its affordable clothing markets, and it had as the anchor tenants until 2017. Due to losing the market competition that resulted the significant decline of visitors, caused by the existence of

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and the

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, nearly all kiosks in Blok M Mall have been permanently closed and the mall become very quite and empty. The 2025 revitalization of the terminal sought the revival of the mall's golden years. It will serve as a new culinary and cultural center, as well as an exhibition space for

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Transjakarta routes

Other routes

Perum DAMRI

Airport shuttle

* Blok M terminal -

Jabodetabek Residence Connexion (JR Connexion)

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- Cikarang Raya - Cibarusah Raya)

Mayasari Bakti

* AC05A: Blok M terminal - Bekasi terminal (via Cut Meutia - A. Yani -

) * AC05B: Blok M terminal - Bekasi terminal (via Ir. H. Djuanda - H. Mulyadi Joyomartono -

) * AC34: Blok M terminal - Poris Plawad * AC121: Blok M terminal - Hollywood Junction Jababeka (via

- Cikarang Raya - Cibarusah Raya - Kedasih Raya) * AC137A: Blok M terminal - Cileungsi terminal