Extra long buses for the Trans-Jakarta bus way system - often named just ‘Busway’ - will be used on the route Kampung Melayu-Ancol, or Corridor V. The launch of the new buses was executed by the governor of Jakarta, Fauzi Bowo yesterday morning. Ten new extra long buses have been prepared to be operational starting from today. These new buses can only be used on this corridor, because the infrastructure here is completely ready as well.

The long buses, together with the regular buses, will transit at the Sentral Senen bus-stop. The long buses will not use the fly-over to prevent traffic jams from occurring. The normal buses however will use the fly-over in Senen. The bus-stops for the long buses have three doors instead of just one.

Passengers board the buses via the front an back doors. The door in the middle is used to step off the bus. However the buses are slightly slower than the normal buses, they are capable of transporting much more passengers as well. Up to 180 passengers can be in the bus at any time. The operational hours for the extra long buses will be the same as for the regular buses on the Trans-Jakarta routes, from 05:00 to 22:00 local time.

The Meteorological and Geophysical Institute BMG has predicted that waves with heights up to four meters will occur in the seas south of Merauke. Waves this high are dangerous to all kinds of vessels. Based on forecasts from BMG, high waves with heights between three and four meters will also occur in the Arafuru Sea. The conditions are dangerous enough for any passing vessel like freighters, ferries and fishing boats.

Waves with heights between two and three meters are forecasted for the seas north of Aceh, west of Bengkulu until Lampung, the seas south of Java until East Nusa Tenggara, the Sawu Sea, the Sangihe Talaud archipelago and Aru archipelago. These conditions are also dangerous for fishermen and small freighters. Other parts of Indonesia will most likely also be hit by higher-than-normal waves, but they don’t reach up to two meters, which is the level where fishing boats still have to be careful.