An economy-class train was derailed in Garut, West Java, on Tuesday, while traveling on a new track constructed to replace on that was damaged in a landslide and caused another train to derail last Saturday.
One car of the Pasundan economy-class train, which was carrying at least 400 passengers from Bandung to Surabaya in East Java, left the track at Sukamaju village in Kersamah district in Garut at 10:28 a.m. No casualties were reported.
The accident took place three days after two passenger trains, the economy-class Citra Jaya (Serayu) and the executive-class Argo Lawu, suffered accidents on Saturday.
Around 70 passengers were injured when five of the Serayu's cars jumped off the track in Kersamah district and fell into a ravine.
Following the latest accident, train company PT Kereta Api Indonesia has announced it will not use to route until the tracks are fit for use.
The company's spokesman in Bandung, Sukendar Mulya, said two trains scheduled to leave Bandung on Tuesday night would travel by another route.
"We advised the last two trains to take the northern train route, through Cikampek and Cirebon," he said.
He could not provide details on when the tracks in Garut could be used, but said that once the repair works were complete, trains traveling through the area could not exceed five kilometers an hour.
Sukendar said passenger numbers from Bandung had dropped around 15 percent recently from the usual 2,000 passengers a day
He blamed the decline on the moving of train routes through Cikampek.
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