ASEAN Station (formerly Sisingamangaraja Station) is a rapid transit station on the North-South Line of the Jakarta MRT in Jakarta, Indonesia. The station is located in the Gunung area, Kebayoran Baru, South Jakarta and is built on Jalan Sisingamangaraja XII. This station is the northernmost elevated station for the first phase of the Jakarta MRT project before entering the underground line. It is located between Senayan and Blok M BCA stations, and has the station code SSM. It is connected to the TransJakarta at the . The station is located not far from the Secretariat of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. The station is connected to the CSW-ASEAN TOD for Transjakarta's Corridor 13 service via a pedestrian bridge that has been in operation since December 2021.[2] The station has only two railroad tracks and has no switches.
The northernmost elevated station on the MRT, ASEAN station is located on Jl. Sisingamangaraja XII in Selong, Kebayoran Baru, South Jakarta. Nearby the station are Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) secretariat, Indonesian National Police headquarters, Al-Azhar Great Mosque and Al-Azhar Indonesia University campus as well as government buildings such as campuses of Ministry of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning (National Land Agency) and Ministry of Public Works and People's Housing.
The station was originally named Sisingamangaraja Station (hence the station code), from the street is the station located. The name then changed to ASEAN Station due to its close location to the ASEAN Secretariat. Its name change is originally a part of MRT station naming rights, but Jakarta MRT gave the naming rights of the station to ASEAN free of charge.[3]
ASEAN station was officially opened, along with the rest of Phase 1 of the Jakarta MRT on 24 March 2019.[4] The connection to the TransJakarta bus rapid transit at the CSW-ASEAN TOD was opened in December 2021.[5]
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