Reuters
Jakarta, Updated At: 10:53 AM Apr 28, 2026 IST
The death toll from a train collision near Indonesia’s capital Jakarta rose to 14, with 84 people injured, the state railway operator said on Tuesday, as rescuers completed extracting survivors from the wreckage.
The crash occurred late on Monday in Bekasi, on Jakarta’s outskirts, when a commuter train first struck a taxi on the tracks and was then struck by a long-distance train, PT KAI chief executive Bobby Rasyidin said.
Mohammad Syafii, head of Indonesia’s search and rescue agency, said the evacuation was finished after a delicate effort to free passengers trapped inside mangled carriages. “We needed to involve personnel with certain skills to perform a measured extrication,” he said, adding that no more passengers remained inside, though teams would continue to comb the wreckage for body parts.
A women-only carriage took the worst of the impact. Syafii said all 14 victims were women and that most had been pinned by crushed metal. Rescuers used angle grinders to cut through carriage metal before the trains were separated to reach survivors.
Green SM Indonesia, the local arm of Vietnamese electric-vehicle taxi operator Green and Smart Mobility JSC (an affiliate of Vingroup), said on Instagram that the taxi involved was part of its fleet and that it had provided information to authorities to aid the investigation.
President Prabowo Subianto, after visiting a Bekasi hospital, ordered an inquiry and agreed to build a flyover near the tracks to ease heavy local traffic, saying parts of the rail network were poorly maintained. Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT) is investigating the collision.
Scenes at the station on Tuesday showed rescuers and relatives searching for loved ones. Passenger Heriyati said she had planned to ride in the women-only carriage but chose the next one; she was on a call with her husband asking him to pick her up when the collision happened. “I haven’t even finished with the call and the trains collided,” she said.
Commuter trains are among the busiest in Jakarta, the world’s most populous city, and PT KAI said several commuter services were shortened after the crash. Land transport accidents are common in Indonesia; a 2024 collision in West Java killed four and injured dozens.
