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Blok M bus station

Indonesia

Blok M Terminal is a type-B bus terminal located within the commercial and entertainment quarter of Blok M in Kebayoran Baru, Jakarta, Indonesia. As a type-B terminal, it only serves city transport buses that connect several regions in Jakarta and its surrounding cities. The terminal primarily serves Transjakarta's BRT corridors and feeder routes. State-owned transport company Perum DAMRI also operates a number of shuttle bus services from the Soekarno–Hatta International Airport and several planned townships 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 government planned to revitalize the Blok M terminal. This will be the second revitalization of the terminal after the first one in 1992, which forms the current building of the terminal.

Kebayoran Baru was originally built as the satellite city 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-Governor of Jakarta, Ali Sadikin proposed to build a permanent terminal on a 2.2 hectares (22,000 m2) plot of land in Blok M. 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 Wiyogo Atmodarminto 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 Jakarta MRT, are planning to revitalize Blok M terminal once again in 2024. The plan is a part of the government's effort to redevelop Blok M as an integrated transit-oriented development zone and Jakarta's new economic hub, 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. As a preliminary stage, the government refurbished the building (particularly the shopping center on the second floor) and the surroundings to provide a convenient 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, Pramono Anung.

Blok M terminal is a three-storey terminal, where the first floor is the ground floor used as the platform of the terminal. The platform level is only accessible from the second floor. 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.

Blok M terminal has six lines, with all lines serving Transjakarta routes. For Transjakarta, the first line is exclusively used for BRT services (namely Corridor 1); the second and third lines are used for inner city non-BRT routes; the fourth line is used for one feeder route to Ancol, as well as cross-border (Transjabodetabek) feeder routes to Bogor, Alam Sutera (South Tangerang) and Pantai Indah Kapuk 2 (Tangerang Regency); the fifth line is used for Mikrotrans service (namely route JAK-31, Blok M–Andara) alongside Perum DAMRI, Mayasari Bakti and Sinar Jaya buses; the sixth line is used for both Transjakarta feeder and DAMRI shuttle buses to the Soekarno–Hatta International Airport, as well a

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