Indonesia's state power company PLN estimated on Sunday it would take sever...
JAKARTA - Indonesia’s state power company PLN estimated on Sunday it would take several hours to restore power to Jakarta after a major blackout, blaming technical issues for cutting power to tens of millions of people in the capital and surrounding provinces.
“Hopefully for the Jakarta system, if everything goes to plan and the generating system is reliable, smooth supply should return in approximately three hours,” Sripeni Intan Cahyani, acting chief executive of PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara , told a news conference. “We will investigate to find the root causes and analyze them in detail. We will appoint an independent party to investigate,” said Cahyani, who only took up her post on Friday.
The city of Jakarta is the center for government and business in Indonesia and is home to more than 10 million people, with around three times that many people living in the surrounding towns. The capital does suffer periodic blackouts, but usually short-lived and confined to certain areas.Operations at Jakarta’s international airport remained normal using back-up generators, its operator said via Twitter.
“The train stopped all of sudden, we had to wait for a long time,” said Ella Wasila, a passenger near Sudirman station in downtown Jakarta. “There were so many babies in the coach, they were crying, and people were shouting ‘open the door’.” Wiwik Widayanti, chief executive of the Jakarta regional train service, said more than 800,000 people used the network per day at a weekend, so buses would be used to transport stranded passengers.
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