Train schedule from Serpong train station 1 August 2007

Yesterday (31 July 2007) there's an announcement in every train station in Jakarta that in 1 August 2007 the train schedule will be change. The new schedule put in the announcement board and a smaller version was sold to the passenger about 500-1000 rupiah (I do think the new schedule should be given free or lower the price because we know in Indonesia the price for photo copy is just about 100 rupiah per page).

Today in 1 August 2007 we expect the new schedule will be running. And there is no announcement that there will be another change. But what happen is different from what we expect, in Serpong station the new schedule (the one that has been announcement before) said that the economy train using air conditioning (KRL economy AC train with the ticketing price of 5000 rupiah) will be departing from Serpong on 6.00 am, meanwhile the one without air conditioning (KRL economy non AC with ticketing price 1500 rupiah) will be departing from serpong on 5.45 am.

Many people who have to go to work early choose the economy non AC train because it scheduled to departing first. But....then without any explanation of changing the economy AC train departing sooner on 5.45 meanwhile the non AC one suddenly change to 6.00.WHAT HAPPENED?? Why didn't they tell us (the passengers) that the schedule once again being change??. If this is the new schedule (AC on 5.45 and non AC on 6.00) then there isn’t any change from the old schedule before 1 August 2007 this is just the same. Then why do they (PT KAI) bother to make a changing in the schedule but then returning again to the old one before even using the new one? They should have just save their money instead of making the new timetable that they don’t use anyway. Or at least they can tell us so we know that the one in the new timetable has change again before the train departed. It wont be to hard isn't it??

So what happen is, today many of the passengers in the Serpong station feel disappointment for PT KAI. Many of them get late because they are tricked by the new schedule (that doesn't work anyway).

The government in Indonesia always urges the people to use public transportation. But if the public transportation doesn’t have a good management and the people can not trust the public transportation even for a simple one like the timetable, then how do they expect us (the people of Indonesia) to trust them (the government) meanwhile they can not arrange a simple problems like the public transportation timetable???