Stand at Dukuh Atas and you can reach almost anywhere in greater Jakarta without hailing a car. The BNI City station itself handles two services: the Soekarno-Hatta Airport Rail Link, which whisks passengers 25 kilometers to the international airport, and the KAI Commuter Cikarang Loop Line, which began stopping here in July 2022 to relieve crowding at the nearby Sudirman Station. A hundred meters away, across the north bank of the West Flood Canal, sits the older Sudirman commuter rail station. Underground, the Dukuh Atas BNI MRT station connects to Jakarta's north-south metro line. Above, the Dukuh Atas BNI LRT station links to the Jabodebek light rail via a multi-purpose pedestrian bridge. And at street level, Transjakarta's bus rapid transit system runs multiple corridors through the area, with regular fares of 3,500 rupiah -- about 25 US cents. The integration is not seamless. Passengers transferring between modes sometimes navigate separate paid zones and long corridors. But the density of options is unmatched in Indonesia.

BNI City is not a modest structure. The station stretches roughly 500 meters in length and rises three floors. The ground level houses the machinery of modern transit: escalators, tap-in and tap-out gates, ticket vending machines, food outlets, minimarkets, a mosque, a clinic, and self-service flight check-in kiosks where airport-bound passengers can drop their bags before boarding the train. The upper floor serves as the platform, 240 meters long and 32 meters wide, with two straight tracks running through it. Four escalators connect the levels. On December 26, 2017, the station began serving its first passengers, and on January 2, 2018, it was officially inaugurated. Within weeks, President Joko Widodo had ridden the airport train from here, a photo opportunity that underlined the government's investment in rail as Jakarta's answer to its legendary traffic congestion.

Transit planning in Jakarta tends toward consolidation, and BNI City has been the beneficiary. On January 1, 2025, Minister of State-Owned Enterprises Erick Thohir announced the closure of Karet Station, a small commuter stop located between Sudirman and BNI City. The rationale was straightforward: Karet did not appear on the 2025 national train schedule, and its functions could be absorbed. To soften the loss, authorities added a riverwalk footpath along the banks of the Ciliwung River connecting the former Karet catchment to BNI City. The merger was expected to improve the railway ecosystem -- the official phrasing -- and optimize services. But the closure also meant the end of a station that, however small, had served its neighborhood for years. In April 2025, airport train services were transferred from BNI City to the nearby Sudirman Station, a move designed to improve occupancy by connecting airport-bound passengers directly to the LRT without requiring the walk to BNI City.

Corporate naming of transit infrastructure is common in some countries -- London's Emirates Air Line cable car, New York's Citi Field subway stop -- but BNI City was a first for Indonesia. The arrangement between Bank Negara Indonesia, state railway operator Kereta Api Indonesia, and the airport rail link company Railink created a template that Jakarta could replicate elsewhere. BNI did not simply slap its logo on a wall. The bank invested in station facilities, providing ATMs and ticket machines, and took a stake in the station's management. Whether this model will spread to other Indonesian stations remains to be seen, but BNI City proved that corporate sponsorship of public infrastructure could work without making the public space feel overtly commercial. The station still looks like a station. It just happens to carry a bank's name, prominently, on every sign and every map.