"I give the operator two days to solve the problem," he said at City Hall.

He said without appropriate lighting, the passengers would be uncomfortable. Transjakarta currently operates its buses until 10 p.m.

Busway shelters in Mangga Besar, Sawah Besar and Monas have been without light since September 2007.

Reports say the power was cut because the shelters had been getting power illegally from the Street Illumination Agency, responsible for lighting public streets.

PLN found out about the situation in September last year in an electricity sweep. The three shelters were categorized by state electricity firm PLN as "non-customers".

"Because they were not customers, we cut their power supply," said operational manager of PLN for Greater Jakarta, Busmin Simanjuntak, as quoted by tempointeraktif.com.

The three shelters used Rp 100 million (US$10,860) worth of electricity between January 2004 and September 2007.

For example, the Monas busway shelter has used up to Rp 44 million worth of electricity.

Transjakarta's head of infrastructure department Taufik Adiwianto said he had made an agreement with the Street Illumination Agency.

"The agency agreed to pay the bills for January 2004 to December 2006, while we paid for January to September 2007," Taufik said, as quoted by tempointeraktif.com.

He said Transjakarta would ask for its own electricity meter.

"But PLN asked for the payment of all bills. I have asked the Street Illumination Agency when it will pay their bills. So far, I haven't got any response," Taufik said Tuesday.

Transjakarta's Corridor 1 to 7 have approximately 116 bus shelters throughout the city. The three new corridors have about 80 more shelters.