Pertamina ECO Runfest: Dates, Tickets & Venue (Jakarta)

Race day: Sunday, November 22, 2026

This edition takes place on a Sunday. That matters in Jakarta. Sunday mornings are already the city’s running mornings, when stretches of Jalan Sudirman and Jalan Thamrin close to cars for Car Free Day. Runners, cyclists and families are out on the asphalt from first light.

The ECO Runfest is an annual event. It covers more than one race distance:

• 1.5K: the shortest category, suited to children, families and people walking it
• Longer categories: the step up from the 1.5K
• Half marathon (21.1 km): the top distance

The “ECO” in the name is the event’s environmental theme, tied to Pertamina’s energy-transition branding.

Venue, tickets and race packs

Pertamina, as organiser, publishes the start-and-finish venue, the category list and the registration links on its official event pages. Race-pack collection, meaning your bib and timing chip, usually happens at a set location in the days before a Jakarta race. The organiser lists those details next to the registration information.

Our facts don’t include prices or start times, so we haven’t printed any. The registration page shows each category’s fee.

Running in Jakarta heat

Jakarta sits a few degrees south of the equator. Mornings are humid all year. Late November falls in the early part of the rainy season, so a heavy shower is always possible. Organisers usually start races in the city before dawn so the longer distances finish before the sun gets high.

What experienced Jakarta runners usually do:

• Sleep within a short ride of the start, because the earliest trains don’t line up with pre-dawn flag-offs
• Drink at every water station on the half marathon, even when they don’t feel thirsty
• Wear a light cap and technical fabric, as cotton stays soaked in this humidity
• Keep a dry change of clothes and a plastic bag for wet shoes in their bag-drop

Getting there and moving around on race morning

Ride-hailing gets most runners to a pre-dawn start. Gojek and Grab both work in Jakarta, and each offers cars and motorbike taxis (ojek). Ojek drivers can slip past the road closures that build up around any big race, but they drop you a walk away from the start pen.

Once the city wakes up, MRT Jakarta runs along the Sudirman–Thamrin corridor between Lebak Bulus and Bundaran HI. TransJakarta buses cover most of the rest of the city. Both take tap-on stored-value cards from Indonesian banks, which convenience stores such as Indomaret and Alfamart sell and top up.

Payment at food stalls near the finish is mostly cash or QRIS, Indonesia’s national QR code. Many Indonesian banking and e-wallet apps scan it. Tipping isn’t expected at stalls. Rounding up for an ojek driver, or adding a tip in the app, is common.

Volunteers and marshals use Bahasa Indonesia first. A few words help:

• terima kasih: thank you
• air: water
• garis finis: finish line

After the race, finishers in Jakarta usually head somewhere air-conditioned for breakfast. Malls along Sudirman, such as Plaza Senayan and Grand Indonesia near Bundaran HI, open later on Sunday mornings.