Longest Blackout Ever in Jakarta and many other big cities in Java Island! Aug, 4th 2019

Minggu, 4 Agustus 2019, longest day ever and was chaotic for me. I thought that will be another usual sunday where I'll be meeting my friends outside. We promised to meet at Manggarai Station. Then we would continue to take Bekasi Train and would get off at Cakung Station, because we intended to visit Aeon JGC. But the universe had another story for every of us that took the KRL at that noon.

When the train was arriving at the Jatinegara Station, one station away from Manggarai Station, suddenly the train was turning off its ac and the lamp. Upon the arriving in Jatinegara Station, the officer told us to get off from the train and there has been technical electrical issue. At the same time, I also got the message from my mom that told her train stopped in Rawa Buaya Station. Our phone also got no reception. My friends and I assumed the blackout was really massive that it can stop the KRL from working and screwed up the phone provider's reception.

Jatinegara Station was full packed of people. My friends and I were confused whether we should continue to go to Aeon JGC or had a plan B to go to another mall/place. We tried to book an online riding car, but the reception is so bad that we got no connection. So at least we decided to go out of station first. Getting out of the station was another problem, it was really full and it was hard for us to get out, and the queuing was in a mess. Finally we got out of the station.

Outside the station, we tried again to book Grab Car, but still no reception. We tried to stop conventional Taxi, but no empty taxi we could get on. So one of my friend told me we should change our meeting point to Kota Kasablanka, because we can reach it by taking Angkot. Then, we got on the Angkot, we change the Angkot one time to another Angkot, and finally we can reach the mall. In there, we immediately did Dzuhur Pray and had lunch in Ramen place. We also had a chitchat and shuffled the Arisan's winner. Too bad, it wasnt me who won it. Its okay so I can save more lol.

Going home was another issue for me, because I was already far from home and I usually take KRL to go home if I had meeting in Kota Kasablanka. Because it was easier, faster and cheaper for me. But my friends and I know that the KRL havent worked already, so we decided to use the TransJakarta to go home. Fortunately, we can book online riding bike to go to the Bus Shelter. The trip to go home was smooth, I can touch down home safely and sound, and the happiest fact was the electricity was back already. Alhamdulillah.

While I took a rest, I was checking my Twitter, scrolling, and I found something unpleasant. One of my friend who lives in Kalimantan, she tweeted that Jakarta's people was really exaggerating about the black out until it became the Trending Topic in Jakarta and she also laughed at us about it. She said the blackout is a common thing in Kalimantan, so we shouldn't whine so much about it. To be honest, I was really hurt and offended by her tweet. We as in Jakarta citizen feel really surprised by the blackout because one of the fastest and cheapest transportation, which is KRL was down. And added with messy phone reception. It was very chaotic for us because we never really experience this longest and massive blackout. It was really hard for me really, alhamdulillah I was with  my friend, if I was not, I must be really confused, how can I go home lol.

Okay I'm all done ranting about yesterday lol.

I'll add one wise tweet from my friend:



This is some news source about yesterday's event:
https://kumparan.com/@kumparannews/listrik-mati-di-jabodetabek-hingga-bandung-1rbEiELzuTX
https://kumparan.com/@kumparannews/listrik-mati-mrt-dan-krl-lumpuh-1rbEqzruJ4c
https://kumparan.com/muhamadreza/seberapa-kokoh-atau-ringkih-sistem-listrik-terinterkoneksi-itu-1rbYlixvFYd