Governor Joko “Jokowi” Widodo said that he wanted public minivans
(locally known as angkot or mikrolet) to continue operating in the
future, despite a new transportation bylaw draft likely to faze them
out.
Jokowi said that the draft had been submitted to the City Council by his predecessor and that there was nothing he could do.
“The city administration cannot arbitrarily change the draft. If it was up to me, I want the bylaw to protect small-time public transportation companies and will not let it benefit big ones,” the governor said in front of City Hall Tuesday morning.
The governor was speaking to a crowd of people from the Organization of Land Transportation Owners (Organda) who staged a rally against the new transportation bylaw and a recently implemented public transportation fees. “I suggest you to talk to the council and get your aspirations heard. It’s now in their hands,” Jokowi told the masses.
The council is targeting to issue three transportation-related bylaws within the next four weeks. The three bylaws include one on city transportation, another on Transjakarta BRT regionally owned company and the other on BRT networks.
Separately, Selamat Nurdin, a member of the council’s Regional Legislation Body (Balegda), said that a plan on abolishing minivans was still being discussed.
“There’s an idea to gradually abolish the minivans, but we have yet to go into further detail. It’s going to be regulated under other bylaws in the future. There will be more talks on it in the future,” said Selamat, a politician from the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS).
Altogether, with the recently passed bylaw on parking fees, the bylaws will regulate, among other matters, interconnection between transportation modes, transportation network development, private vehicles, traffic management, electronic road pricing (ERP), vehicle age restrictions, motorcycle usage, on-street parking and parking garages.
The bill on city transportation already missed its October deadline despite the council saying that it was prioritizing to pass it first.
Minivan owners and the majority of Jakarta’s public transportation owners managing their services individually have failed to heed warnings to form corporate bodies.
City Transportation Agency chief Udar Pristono reiterated that Law No. 22/2009 on traffic and public transportation mandates that public transportation services be provided by either state– or regional–owned enterprises or corporate bodies.
But, the deadline for the operators is still unclear as there has yet to be a ministerial regulation to implement the law. (sumber: thejakartapost.com)
Jokowi said that the draft had been submitted to the City Council by his predecessor and that there was nothing he could do.
“The city administration cannot arbitrarily change the draft. If it was up to me, I want the bylaw to protect small-time public transportation companies and will not let it benefit big ones,” the governor said in front of City Hall Tuesday morning.
The governor was speaking to a crowd of people from the Organization of Land Transportation Owners (Organda) who staged a rally against the new transportation bylaw and a recently implemented public transportation fees. “I suggest you to talk to the council and get your aspirations heard. It’s now in their hands,” Jokowi told the masses.
The council is targeting to issue three transportation-related bylaws within the next four weeks. The three bylaws include one on city transportation, another on Transjakarta BRT regionally owned company and the other on BRT networks.
Separately, Selamat Nurdin, a member of the council’s Regional Legislation Body (Balegda), said that a plan on abolishing minivans was still being discussed.
“There’s an idea to gradually abolish the minivans, but we have yet to go into further detail. It’s going to be regulated under other bylaws in the future. There will be more talks on it in the future,” said Selamat, a politician from the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS).
Altogether, with the recently passed bylaw on parking fees, the bylaws will regulate, among other matters, interconnection between transportation modes, transportation network development, private vehicles, traffic management, electronic road pricing (ERP), vehicle age restrictions, motorcycle usage, on-street parking and parking garages.
The bill on city transportation already missed its October deadline despite the council saying that it was prioritizing to pass it first.
Minivan owners and the majority of Jakarta’s public transportation owners managing their services individually have failed to heed warnings to form corporate bodies.
City Transportation Agency chief Udar Pristono reiterated that Law No. 22/2009 on traffic and public transportation mandates that public transportation services be provided by either state– or regional–owned enterprises or corporate bodies.
But, the deadline for the operators is still unclear as there has yet to be a ministerial regulation to implement the law. (sumber: thejakartapost.com)
I appriciate governor of Jakarta who support the the law income public transport, and at the same time indirectly he has supported the Organda too.
ReplyDeleteIt is much different with what we have in Batam.
As a chief Organda Kota Batam, we got no support from Batam Mayor at all. So then we face difficulties to up right the good system for the land transport in Batam.