It is now one of the most frequently asked questions: “Does the new Jakarta administration have an effective method to ease traffic?”
The answer is that not only one, but four methods would be applied at the same time to reduce the capital’s gridlock problem by 40 percent, by 2014.
City traffic police deputy director Adj. Sr. Comr. Wahyono said on Monday that his division and the Jakarta Transportation Agency had met on Friday to discuss several measures deemed effective to control the number of vehicles on the road.
“We have agreed to resort to the implementation of an electronic road pricing (ERP) system, firm enforcement of regulations on both traffic and spatial planning as well as vehicle limitation to achieve the targeted 40 percent reduction,” he said.
The police and the transportation agency were currently working on details on the traffic policy, Wahyono added.
Last week, newly installed Governor Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and Jakarta Police chief Insp. Gen. Putut Eko Bayuseno had promised to make “breakthroughs” in easing the city’s heavy traffic.
Jakarta is estimated to suffer from total gridlock by 2014 as the number of vehicles on the road has been rising by 11.26 percent every year, while the number of new roads has only increased by 0.01 percent each year.
Currently, according to traffic police data, 20.7 million people go in and out of the capital on a daily basis and 56.8 percent of them use their own vehicle.
The data also shows that on average, commuters need 120 minutes of travel time to get to their destination, with only 40 percent moving time.
Jokowi had previously said that he was optimistic about the implementation of the pricing system next year after the central government finally approved the pivotal legal basis for its execution.
The police had suggested that the administration set an ERP trip charge somewhere between Rp 50,000 (US$5.20) and Rp 100,000.
The city, however, has said that a trip charge of between Rp 6,500 and Rp 21,000 for the planned ERP system would be enough to reduce private vehicle use, reflecting inflation and economic growth.
“The pricing system is expected to discourage motorists from using private cars and use public transportation instead. But, we need a gubernatorial regulation for the implementation,” Wahyono said.
Besides the pricing system, Wahyono said that the police and the administration had also agreed to crack down on-street parking and sidewalk vendors to create more space for motorists.
“On-street parking and sidewalks vendors occupy space for motorists, narrowing the roads, leading to congestion,” he said.
Wahyono said that the police and administration would also deploy a number of transportation agency officers, Jakarta Public Order Agency (Satpol PP) and traffic police officers to 70 congestion-prone areas in the capital.
“The sources of congestion in those areas vary, besides they serve as main and busy roads. Officers from the agency and the Satpol PP are required to clamp down on on-street parking, sidewalk vendors and public transportation vehicles that stop illegally,” he said.
Wahyono, however, said that nothing mentioned above would work well if the numbers of vehicles in the capital kept increasing.
He said that the police and the administration would look over possible ways to limit the number of vehicles running on the city streets, deeming that banning Jakartans from buying new vehicles would be impossible.
“Banning people from buying cars may violate free trade, so the best we can do is to allow only certain vehicles — either by color, manufacture year or the number on its license plate — taking turns to run on the streets only on certain days,” he said.
- Total road length: 7,208 km
- Road growth: 0.01% per annum
- Total numbers of vehicle: 13,347,802
- Motorcycles: 9,861,451
- Passenger cars: 2,541,351
- Commercial vehicles: 581,290
- Buses: 363,710
"...so the best we can do is to allow only certain vehicles — either by color, manufacture year or the number on its license plate — taking turns to run on the streets only on certain days,”
ReplyDeleteI really agree with this statement. When I was still studying in Jakarta, I felt so frustrated everyday because of the traffic. Jakarta's traffic is really terrible and always getting worse. Maybe it's because the amount of people who live in the city is increasing every year. But seriously, the traffic jam is just so helpless. Back then, the government made a regulation about students going to school earlier than before, so that they don't bump into people who go to work. But still, there's no significant change. Most of students always go to school with their parents anyway, so the traffic is still really bad.
Banning people from buying cars indeed may affect our economics and free trade.That's why I really agree with the new idea. We can allow only certain vehicles, and the others can use another public transportation. Because of this, the government will automatically fix our public transportation until it can be more comfortable and safe. The traffic also can be reduced too. So I hope this new regulation will be applied soon.
Well, I don't know how's it going with this issue, but Jakarta's traffic is getting worse. I spent more than five hours to go to Soekarno Hatta Airport from Bogor because the traffic jam on Jakarta's toll road. Five or six years ago, my father came home from work at 5.30 PM but nowadays, he comes home at 7 PM. Although the work ends at 4 PM and the rule never changes. People mostly say, “Hidup di Jakarta bikin tua di jalan,” or in English, “living in Jakarta makes us older on the road.”
ReplyDeleteI agree with Hening's opinion. I think the government should fix the public transportation first. Add more Transjakarta's buses, fix the Commuter Line, make the MRT's development faster. People are more comfortable to use private cars because the public transportation's system is really bad. So, in my opinion, fixing the public transportation could help this problem. Hopefully.
After Jokowi’s promoted to the head of governor of Jakarta. I see lot’s of improvement. Although, still there are some lacks in most of cases. Especially, traffic in Jakarta. One of the most crowded city in Indonesia. Reducing traffic 40% within 2 years is almost possible if public things such as public transportation, public places, etc, and regulations are good enough. Also, people perspective must change in order to make a solution toward government implementation. I can’t explain much but there are tips if you face the heavy traffic jam.
ReplyDelete-Wake up earlier and prepare earlier.
-Choose the best time to go out. Make a schedule if it’s possible
-Turn on radio to keep abreast of the latest traffic situation
-If you have a driver. He/She must be smart of knowing places
-Don’t forget to bring power bank, book, or any other things that might be needed
-If all of my tips are fail and the traffic is not moving. Pull in to the nearest pub
-Always careful and good luck
By 2014??? I was a bit shocked because this is already in 2 weeks but then I realized that this article is from 2012. But still, this is a very short period of time. I have been just this weekend in Jakarta (I came back yesterday) and the traffic is really the worst. I must say that I didn’t feel any improvement. Maybe it was worse before, but I can hardly imagine that.
ReplyDeleteBy reading this article, I am becoming more and more angry about the naivety and unprecedented stupidity of the government! How can a pricing system be effective if the public transportation system is poorly developed and not even connects all districts of the city.
“Besides the pricing system, Wahyono said that the police and the administration had also agreed to crack down on-street parking and sidewalk vendors to create more space for motorists.”
Why should the government destroy sidewalks which offer an alternative for short distances to avoid using street transportation vehicles and reduce pollution? Why should they destroy parking spaces for motorcycles that reduce the amount of traffic (by comparing 1 person using the scooter or the car, then the scooter produces less pollution and takes less m² of the street.
“Banning people from buying cars may violate free trade, so the best we can do is to allow only certain vehicles — either by color, manufacture year or the number on its license plate — taking turns to run on the streets only on certain days,” he said.
What kind of helpful suggestion is that cars should be selected by their color? Sorry but I can’t take this whole article serious if such an inappropriate recommendation is cited.
When I read the title of this article, I was hoping for suggestions like improving bus infrastructure, building below/above ground trains and enlarge sidewalks following the example of Singapore or other metropolises. This is just a very poor example how incompetent Jakarta’s officials really are! Implementing a pricing system gives people the impression that they are again only interested in money!
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I agree with you that the government should really take the blame for this whole mess. However, I think larger part of the blame should be on previous governors. The current governor, Jokowi, has only been in charge for over a year, and, considering his achievements so far, is a major upgrade compared to his predecessors. We can already expect much better projects from him, for example the realisation of a mass rapid transportation system (late, but better late than never). I think you misunderstood some parts, though. The government does not plan to destroy the sidewalks, but they plan to crack down on the food vendors that usually nest on the sidewalks, blocking the path for pedestrians. They also plan to crack down street parking so that there is more space afforded for motorists who are using the roads. Also, the allowing of cars of certain colour, license plate, etc. is only an idea that was put forward by the police officer. It is by no means an official comment made by the police, let alone the government. I believe that Jokowi is a very rational man, perhaps the most rational politician in the whole country. Therefore, he will probably not let such non-sensical idea come into fruition.
DeleteI think it is almost impossible that the traffic will reduce 40% in 2014. I was just laughing when I read this article. Because, last Friday I went to Jakarta to see Djakarta Warehouse Project with some friends and can you believe that from Depok (I took my friends first near University Indonesia) to Ancol took 6 hours. And I almost missed the favorite DJ just call him Zedd. It is very bad for me that Jakarta has a very bad traffic jam like that. But Jokowi has a good plan and also doing well in every single thing for Jakarta. Almost all people support Jokowi wholeheartedly and love him. And even though it is almost impossible to reduce 40% the traffic jam by 2014, it could be happen if Jakarta still has Jokowi as its leader. And I’m sure that Jakarta will so much better if Jokowi still leading that gorgeous city.
ReplyDeleteJakarta's traffic seems to be a long term unsolved problems. However, as Jokowi is being elected to be the Governor, Jakarta is being much better because of his great ideas and innovation.
ReplyDeleteWe cannot resist the reason behind a massive number of motorcycles and cars in Jakarta is because the lack of good transportation provided. Its impossible to use taxi for everyday life yet another low cost transportation like bus has no good facilities. Despite all these things, the price of car and motorcycle are relatively cheap. Not to forget to mention it can be paid with installment for several years.
The ERP system will surely effective in business area like Sudirman, Senayan, Kuningan and Gatot Subroto. However, the traffic is not only in this area and until now the ERP system has not work yet.
Besides, I just came back from Jakarta, and I just know that they have this 'contra-flow way' in toll every morning to decrease the volume of traffic (from Cawang to Semanggi or from Grogol to Slipi). I think this is a really good idea.
I am from Jakarta, and I know that the traffic jams there are brutal. Even though there are efforts to reduce the traffic in Jakarta, It is not improving well enough. We could take an example about Transjakarta. I am a regular user of Transjakarta back there, and it is actually quite decent public transfer IF you are lucky enough. When you’re using transjakarta, you can only hope that when you’re transiting to other bus, you could immediately get in. It is not a rare case that you could wait for more than half an hour; hell, it could be more than an hour just to wait for the transit. Even if the bus arrived, it is too packed for you to get in. That is why some people prefer to use private vehicles, and that is why Transjakarta did not have a significant effect at reducing Jakarta’s traffic. There are other efforts as well, but they also did not have any significant effect too. I don’t know the recent improvement though, as I am now staying in Yogyakarta, but I hope I could see a better Jakarta when I return.
ReplyDeleteThis has been going for a year? Well, I've returned to Jakarta three times last month, and all I see is countless number of traffic jam on nearly every road I knew and frequently used, compared to the last time I stayed there about four months ago. I don't really see any improvement on the road in Jakarta, not compared to Yogyakarta, not as long as people of Jakarta keeps buying vehicles even if the price is heightened. Although, the latter seems to be effective on completely build-up, imported cars, because the import tax for vehicles has increased to 100%, meaning an imported car is sold for the price of two. I'm really crying in agony for this, to be perfectly honest, because a car that I have been wanting to buy now reaches more than half a billion (or milliard) rupiah. Anyway, that only effective on imported cars, but for completely knocked-down (CKD) or locally manufactured cars, there's no change in tax, so the problem hasn't been solved yet.
ReplyDeleteI think the reason why roads in Jakarta can't keep up with the increasing number of motorised vehicles would be because Jakarta itself is too tight to add up another road. Well, it's not too tight per se, as if there's no spaces left, but it's something like that. It's just that people keep using empty land to build something, let alone roads and estates. Convenient store, for example, and most of the open spaces for the stores are empty. You'd get what I'm talking about. Then, there's the road itself. Potholes on the road in Jakarta are too common; you can even find potholes in motorway/highway, which could be very dangerous. Yes, today it is properly fixed, but in the past, they used to fix it improperly, making the road seemingly too ugly and too bumpy, and over the course of time, the mixture poured to patch the potholes sunk in, producing the "cauldron-like potholes."
40 percent traffic reduction is a serious tall order. It's been going for a year, so theoretically, the number should decrease by 20 percent, but in reality? The data I read in the news about the start of this year stated that in 2012, the number of vehicles, including ships and aeroplane, in Jakarta alone is 13 million, with the expanded category of 9 million motorbikes, 3 million cars plus buses and heavy-duty trucks, and a million non-terrestrial vehicles. I'd like to see just how effective their method of reduction be now that vehicles in Jakarta significantly increasing this year, because they can't keep adding roads as there will be no spaces left for new roads one day, so effective traffic management is necessary. Well, with Jokowi at hand, it may be possible.
As far as I have heard, the traffic in Jakarta is not reduced at all but increasing like literally from day to day. The population of Indonesia is growing, and with the ongoing economic growth there are more and more people lifted to the middle class that can afford to buy a car. Therefore the number of cars is increasing dramatically. In my opinion you can also see it in Yogyakarta and it is not a development that took several years. I can recognize the difference and the increase in vehicles especially cars and the resulting congestions although I am only here for 11 months. The worst time of the day is around 4 or 5 in the afternoon when I drive home from UGM and Jalan Kaliurang is literally full and nothing is going on. Therefore it is not hard to imagine that it would take like forever to come from A to B in Jakarta. In my opinion the only solution to this whole traffic problem is the expansion of the infrastructure and the public transportation. A city train can carry so many people at the same time and is so much more comfortable for everyone by additionally saving time, money and making a good contribution to the environment.
ReplyDeleteI came from Jakarta so I know really well about the transportations and traffic. I don’t think those solutions above will work significantly to reduce the traffic in Jakarta. Those solutions are just going to be a short-term solution. None of the solutions above will make motorists use the public transportations. Cracking down on-street parking and sidewalk vendors to create more space for motorists will only make people who are using private vehicles be more comfortable and wont even think to switch to public transportations. Why does the government always think to make the road wider? Why don’t the government think to improve the public transportation? The public transportation in Jakarta is really bad (and Jogja is even worse, to be honest). You have wait for uncertain time in the transjakarta shelter to get on the bus, there are so many beggars in public busses and the drivers of the public bus are disorderly (some of them don’t even have driving license). I have heard so many times that the government will build a monorail, but where is it? You can see rusty pillars that are supposed to be monorail around Senayan; they never continue to build it.
ReplyDeleteI can’t say much about how this issue is going as I have only been to Jakarta once and only at the airport. But everybody I talk to says that Jakarta’s traffic is horrible. This is also one of the reasons I never went there on vacation. In my opinion it is quite an ambitious goal to reduce traffic in a city like Jakarta by 40% within two years. Especially, because the number of cars is increasing by more than 10% a year. In addition, from what I heard Jakarta lacks a good public transport infrastructure, so what should the people do instead of using their own vehicle? Like Dinah, I also believe that I can see that the number of cars in Yogya is increasing and I came here in February. As most of the additional traffic in Jakarta is due to the higher income of the people who can now afford cars a regulation like sort of a toll for using the streets is a good and effective idea. But then, the amount of money people have to pay must be so high that it also hurts people who are less price sensitive due to their high income because it is mainly them who block the roads. And this would hurt poor people badly who rely on their motorbike or car. Furthermore, the idea to employ more policemen to monitor the illegal parking and street vendors narrowing streets and hence decreasing their capacity is – in theory - good. But I can hardly believe that this can be implemented effectively in a country like Indonesia where nobody cares about any laws or regulations.
ReplyDeleteWell I guess the prediction of the news went by far from expectation, what I have been seeing is in fact an increase in usage of cars and motorcycles which similarly worsen the traffic and further congestion. I think the plan to reduce traffic by 40% in 2 years is just rushed, little but significant steps are what needed by Indonesia, not a huge but illogical step. In my opinion, the government should plan a long-term yet sustained strategy to reduce traffic in which will not be easy to determine. There are so many aspects that should be viewed by the government, because the plan to ‘reduce traffic’ could ended up hurting the distribution of foods or equipments around Jakarta, for example.
ReplyDelete“On-street parking and sidewalks vendors occupy space for motorists, narrowing the roads, leading to congestion.” I totally agree with the statement because it really does take up much space and also annoying to the others. The danger of parking on the street also exist, people could accidentally open the door of their car as a fast-driving car pass by. Besides that, sidewalks vendors also increase this by providing the space for parking. The restrictions and banning of the street parking could be our first step toward reducing the congestion of traffic in Indonesia.
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Wel I think, Jakarta can’t free from traffic, because as time goes by the vehicles in Jakarta also increasing. The government has done many things to reduce the traffic in Jakarta for a long time ago, but the result is none. What they do is increasing the tariff of parking vehicle in many places such as mall and toll-road. They also make Trans Jakarta to be the public transportation that cover almost street in Jakarta, but still people in there rather to ride their own vehicle. The government also build new flyover to reduce the traffic but the development takes a long time and make the road more traffic. There are also new shopping area that make Jakarta more crowded.
ReplyDeleteNowadays, many of cheap car and motorcyle are selling in the market. So it is the cause people in Jakarta, mostly, have their own vehicle. Rich people also increasing so they will spend their money with buying a new car. So people should have more attention to this, because the capital city should be a comfortable and healthy place, not a crowded place that can inhibit our lives.
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I think there are lots of effective long-term plans to reduce traffic are to build convenient public transports, and to sell vehicles with the right capacity to people. For example if X is currently living alone in an apartment and is willing to buy a car, the car seller should only offer him small cars. Because usually people in Jakarta drive big cars but there’s only one person in the car so it’s a waste of energy and place—where it can be used for other vehicle.
ReplyDeleteThe ERP trip charge price increase is effective to be used as a short-term plan, because it’s not possible to reduce traffic in a very long time using this plan. People would probably disagree since the public transportation facilities are really below standard and inconvenient to use, they have to pay for more so that they can comfortably get to the place where they work.
It’s already unfair for them to buy cars because their homes are far from Jakarta—for people living in Cibubur or Bogor who work in Jakarta, plus they have to pay extra because they don’t feel like riding public transportation. So I hope in the future Mr. Jokowi will apply short and long-term effective plans to reduce Jakarta’s traffic.
I’m not saying this plan is insane but judging by fact that happen, I guess it might take more time to decreasing traffic jam in Jakarta than just for 2 years. Maybe the government can do more with short term plan like raising the tax for vehicle, parking space, or highway tickets. Maybe if the government raises such sectors that I mention it before can make people tend to use their vehicle effectively. The problem that Jakarta facing is too many people use their vehicle ineffectively, like using their car only for individual purpose or close range. So after the frequency of vehicle greatly decrease then government can run their long term program. Targeting big numbers in decreasing the traffic jam in short period of time is good thing as long all the supporting factors are ready, if its not then it only causing a bigger problem like chaos in society. Furthermore, I think the society itself doesn’t really ready for a big massive changes in short term period because the morality still have much to be fixed because obeying the law still a huge problem for the majority of Indonesian people.
ReplyDelete“Jakarta aim to reduce traffic by 40 percent in 2 years” is the head of the article, and this article is published a year ago. What really happened now? In my opinion as Jakarta citizen who live in Jogja is I don’t think that the government is gonna fulfil the target, 40 percent is quite an impossible number to achieve for 2 years. Traffic is a latent problem and it caused by many factors such as the high number of vehicles in town, a lot of people preferred to use their cars or motorcycles to commute because the public transportation is not safe and comfortable, the ratio of vehicle and road in Jakarta is awful where the growth of the vehicle is high but not the road growth, and the last thing that I could think of is the discipline on the road level of many Jakarta citizen especially motorcycle users usually act reckless and sometimes you might questioning whether his driver license is real or not.
ReplyDeleteWhen I read this article, I was surprised with Jokowi’s self confidence. He stated he aims to reduce traffic by 40 percent in 2 years. Well, I am quite pessimist whether he really can do it or not. I admit Jokowi had made a lot of improvement since he became the governor of Jakarta. But, let’s be realistic. If you see the number from the article above, it stated that the number of vehicles on the road has been rising by 11.26 percent while the number of new road only increased by 0.01 percent each year. You cannot do anything except making new roads, or increase the number of public transportation. The public transportation in Jakarta is totally (sorry to say) horrible. Even TransJakarta. TransJakarta consider as good public transportation compared to Kopaja or Mikrolet. But I think the number of TransJakarta Bus does not suffice the demand of people. We have to wait a very long time for the queue, which is not efficient and wasting time. if only the governor taking more concern about this, I believe it is possible to reduce the traffic.
ReplyDeleteHello and good night everyone.
ReplyDeleteThis topic regarding to traffic jam that occurs everyday in Jakarta is interesting. Why? Because so far, no matter how, the governor tried to stop this problem, it never seem to end. But instead, the problem is worsened day by day. And of course, because of this traffic jam, it brings huge Inconvinience to everyone. And I think, the safest way, to reduce traffic jam in Jakarta is by decreasing the number of vehicles allowed to be driven on the streets of Jakarta. And I think that Jakarta should follow Singaporean rule, that require every vehicle owners to wreck their car at the scrapyard every 5years. And hopefully, it will reduce the urge to buy cars and motorcycles. And also, the other profit we can earn from it, is that we can reduce the number of pollution on air, because we know, the older the car, the gas coming out from its exhaust can be more dirtier than the new one.
And I guess that’s all, thank you.
Well I think to reduce the traffic by almost 40 percent by 2014 it’s really hard to make it happen. Because people at Jakarta don’t have a choice if they want to do their activities with their private cars or motorbike due to Jakarta don’t have a good mass transportation system. For example transjakarta service nowadays it’s getting worse when a week ago I visited Jakarta and I tried to use the bus, the bus condition its very bad and even one of the transjakarta bus in front of me got broken inside the transjakarta line making another bus behind it got stuck and make the passengers have to get out from the bus and find another transportation. So I hope before the government want to reduce the car and motorcycle in the street by using erp or something they have to improve their transportation system first then make a rule to limit the car and motorcycle in the Jakarta’s streets.
ReplyDeletewell, I would say it has only 20 percent chance to reduce the traffic in Jakarta. Because as you know, almost one third of Indonesia's population are staying in Jakarta. And most of them has their own vehicle either it's motor cycles or cars. And only small amount of people use the public transport like busway, shuttle bus (which called "Metromini" by the locals", angkot, and taxis. They prefer ride their own motorcycles or drive their cars because the public transport's facilities is still far from standrart. It makes people feel uncomfortable using them. So I think Jakarta’s government has to do something about it. They has to upgrade the public transport’s facilites so it will become more comfortable and attract people to use it instead of driving their own cars or motorcycles. And the government should finish the monorail project on time. Or as fast as possible. Because in my opinion, monorail is way more comfortable than other public transports and it reaches destinations faster than other public transports.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, I do not think that Jakarta can be free from traffic jam. It supported by several problems.
ReplyDeleteThe first problem is, it is depend on the person itself. Indonesian people cannot keep the cleanliness and the security. We can see from the public transportations, bus way or trans-Jakarta does not run that effective. People still prefer to go by their own car because of some reasons. The bus-way is not that clean and still, there are the crimes, as we know Jakarta is popular with the high number of criminalities in Indonesia. If the government wants to make Jakarta become like Singapore or other countries, then they should start from their-selves. But frankly, it is hard to change people’s minds which have ingrained in their minds.
The second problem is the newest problem; there are lots of cheap cars nowadays. Indeed, we can see from two dimensions.
The first dimension is from the businessmen of the car factory and the people with low income. The businessmen want to maximize their profits by producing the cheap cars. The target is the low income people, who have the lower willingness to pay for the good quality cars (expensive cars) compare to the high income people. By doing that, the low income people are become attracted with the cheap cars remembering that they also want to have their own car but with the lower cost. Moreover, they can pay the car with repayments until twelve times or more with some interests even with low or high interests.
However, another dimension is from the government dimension that want to make Jakarta is free from traffic jam. The cheap cars will make people are more consumptive and want to buy that cheap cars. This process will effect Jakarta becomes more tight traffic.
At the end, it becomes really complicated problems to say about Jakarta’s traffic.
I'm not convince by the statement of "Jakarta aims to reduce traffic by 40 percent in two years. Its because year by year the vehicles their are increasing and its hard to prevent people from purchasing it.This won't guarantee that the vehicles will decrease. Jakarta is a big city, so you have to work hard on it to reduce the traffic. I think thats very challenging if the government aims to do it in two years. Also about the ERP and the trip charge, in my opinion it won't have an affect on the traffic unless the price would be really high.
ReplyDeleteMr. Joko Widodo has recently doing a good job on being the current Governor but theres some mistakes that he already made. For example, he promised that he would reduce and handle the flood a few years ago but it didn't happen.Now, we should hope the promise about the traffic wouldn't end up like the flood.
When the news that Jakarta aims to reduce traffic by 40 percent in 2 years, a lot of people feel very skeptical about it. The first thing that will come to their mind is ‘impossible’. Especially with the increasing rate urbanization and the recent conflict regarding Jakarta governor’s decision to encourage the sale of cheap car. However, in fact Jakarta has adopted a lot of method to improve the transportation problems. As stated by the article, Jakarta aims to install ERP (Electronic Road Pricing) at the mouth of roads towards the CBD areas. By installing, it will deter people from using roads at the CBD areas during peak hours, which will reduce traffic jam. Another method that the Jakarta’s governor has adopted is to improve the public transportation in Jakarta which is shown by the building of ‘bus way’. However there is very low maintenance of these public services and besides Jakarta is still having a lot of vandalism. Lastly, and also the most recent approach, the Jakarta governor is planning to eliminate the availability of subsidized petrol in Jakarta. With low disposable income, the government thinks that this method would be effective in controlling traffic in Jakarta.
ReplyDeleteWell I think there has not been any significant improvement on Jakarta’s traffic as when I was going back to Jakarta last weekend I still experienced the usual Jakarta’s traffic jams and even some of my friends that still stays in Jakarta said that the traffic are getting more and more worse like from Pondok Indah Mall to Pertok (which is still at the same region which is Pondok Indah) my friend said that it took him 2 hours to reach his house that is relatively very very close to the Pondok Indah Mall. And for the projects itself I would really like to see the outcome from that planning because the solution offered by the government are quite good like the Electric Road Pricing and the enforcement on the illegals parkers. But it does has some flaw in it like in the implementation itself I can barely see Satpol PP evict the illegal parkers and also for the Electric Road Pricing, who could maintains all 13,347,802 vehicles that use the Jakarta’s road? Is this even possible to monitor every single vehicle?
ReplyDeleteIn conclusion I think the 40% can be achieved but not in two years it may take another couple of years to solve Jakarta’s traffic. And also the government would need a lot of money to fund this kind of projects.
"...but four methods would be applied at the same time to reduce the capital’s gridlock problem by 40 percent, by 2014." Jakarta's local government had planned some solutions to decrease the jam, like higher ERP, higher park fee, and mass, public transportation. I'm agree with this argument. To reduce the traffic, beside making the stricter law, they need to improve their mass transportation simultaneously and prioritizing it in shorter time frame, like improving the comfort of bus and reducing the waiting time in bus stop. By improving the mass transportation simultaneously, the people who usually drives their own car would feel comfortable, easier, and faster when using mass transportation and keep using it on their next trip.
ReplyDeleteIncreasing ERP itself would not decrease the number of car traffic in Jakarta, given the fact of how capital in mid-upper class of Jakartans increasing gradually. People might reroute from a road, make it less jammed, but simultaneously make other road cluttered.
And then, Low Cost Green Car (LCGC) program which launched by government to attract people to own a car made this traffic jam problem became harder to solve. At first, this type of car launched for people outside Jakarta. But the fact showed that most buyer of these car were in Jakarta, increasing the number more. State government should rethink about this decision, because this decision is contracting with Jakarta government's plan.
Having lived in Jakarta for 17 years, from what I've observed, the idea to reduce traffic jam itself sounds ridiculous. But 40 percent? The government should think clearly before setting such an unattainable goal. With the constant demand for new motorcycles and cars, as well as the increasing number of immigrants in Jakarta, it seems that the traffic in Jakarta will be more likely to increase.
ReplyDeleteDuring my highschool days, I have actually preferred to help reduce traffic by preferring going to school by bus (Transjakarta and Kopaja) instead of by car. However, the poor service, transportation schedule, as well as the safety makes it quite difficult for me to not be tempted to use personal vehicles. In my opinion, the ones I stated above are the main factors that can either encourage or discourage people to use public vehicles.
I think two of the most effective ways to reduce traffic are by proper traffic control and vehicle quota. This might seem outrageous, but I think the families in Jakarta should be given a limited number of vehicles to own, such as 1 bike and 1 car per family. Furthermore, Polda Metro should increase security on the roads. Also, why not put the busway lane facing backwards with the main road? That way, no one will ever trespass to the busway.
Traffic congestion in Jakarta has become major issue for years. The government has increased the tax on vehicle price, but still people are still considering using private transportation. Maybe the government should do better research on why most people would prefer to use private transportation rather than public transportation.
ReplyDeleteThe service quality of public transportation in Indonesia is the worst. It is hot, packed with people, and the fleets are not safe. Most public buses in Jakarta do not have air-con installed, hence during the midday it can be very unpleasant to be travelling with public buses. People would rather use cab or any other transportation to travel, since it is more convenient. When peak hours the most public bus services are full with passenger, so some of them has to wait for the next bus to board. The bus are also not safe to transport passenger, most bus owners do not about the bus maintenance, hence they will just leave the bus as it is, until something is really broken then they will try to fix it.
Reduce the traffic by 40% in 2 years, I don’t think that this plan going to work, even traffic police deputy director Adj. Sr. Comr. Wahyono have said 4 method to reduce the traffic in Jakarta such as ERP, which will charge every privately owned car around Rp.50.000. let see what will happen in next year. I know (maybe) it will reduce the traffic but not too effective, Governor of Jakarta must try another way to reducing the traffic, I see there some hope at MRT (Mass Rapid Transit) if Jakarta want to reduce privately owned vehicle so Jakarta must provide the citizen with mass transports, a lot of mass transport. We can see now “transjakarta bus way” still does not enough for Jakarta although the government keep developing it but Jakarta need another mass transports. The MRT and subway can be the best answer to solve traffic problem.
ReplyDeleteSo imagine if we combine all the method which mentioned by Mr. Wahyono and then provide the citizen with exclusive mass transport, I think there will be no more traffic jam.
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ReplyDelete“Banning people from buying cars may violate free trade, so the best we can do is to allow only certain vehicles — either by color, manufacture year or the number on its license plate — taking turns to run on the streets only on certain days,”
ReplyDeleteWow, what an effective way to reduce traffic, Wahyono. Or not.
That is the most ridiculous attempt to reduce congestion, and I can guarantee you that if this policy were to be realized by the government, the opposite effect of what they’re expecting would happen. Yes, the number of private vehicles will rise even more. How come, you ask? By preventing certain colors, manufacture years, or the number of the license plate, it will encourage people even more to buy new vehicles. Why bother riding the unhygienic-unconditioned-slowpoke public transportation when you can buy a new car or motorcycle that has a different license plate? I am not saying this to imply that everyone will attempt to do so. But, do keep in mind that the middle to upper class society in Jakarta increases from time to time. Not to mention, it would be stupidly difficult for the oh-so-competent polices to monitor every single vehicles that pass by, checking their license plate.
Will I be willing to ride the public transportations in Jakarta? The answer is a big giant no. To begin with, it is dirty, it stinks, and it is incredibly “fast”. That is, if you know what I mean. Also, even though there are bus stations, there are no real appropriate sites on where can the driver drops or pick the customer. Thus, adds the slowpoke nature of the bus. Secondly, you are prone to be pick-pocketed, kidnapped, or worse, murdered. This occurs especially at night, and in the “angkot”, or one of those shady-branded taxis. Thirdly, and most importantly, the infrastructure of Jakarta itself in the first place is unsuitable for the installment of public transportation systems. Weird intersections, winding roads, and many other aspects support this situation.
The solution behind this problem, the way I think about it is to actually put a greater tax to private vehicles prices and the annual tax as well. This will not ban people from buying them, but at the same time it sorts out the number of people that can afford them. Moreover, we should not forget the existence of credit purchase. The government should make a regulation that forbids incredibly cheap credit so that not all people will be able to buy private vehicles. Also, the success rate of creating driving license should be stricter. Bribing the examiner should be forbidden. Then, if this plan is proved to be fruitful, the government should tend to the public transportation so that more and more people would be comfortable to ride them without feeling unsafe. In the end, Wahyono’s plan would be able to be executed when all of these conditions are met. Otherwise, as I stated earlier, the opposite of what they expected might occur.
Jakarta and traffic jam is two sides that become a unity. Why I call it a unity? Jakarta is identic with the traffic jam and the big amount of vehicle. The article says, “Does the new Jakarta administration have an effective method to ease traffic?” the answer for this question is not easy. Traffic jam is the most chronic problem in Jakarta. It likes a disease that cannot be cured and always happens every time. However, I believe that the new Jakarta administration will find a solution to solve this chronic problem. The result from their solution is not instant, it will take several times. Moreover, the new governor of Jakarta already did the MRT project to make a public transportation for the citizen. Jakarta needs an efficient public transportation to cover traffic problem. If they have a good public transportation, the citizen will use it and it will solve the traffic jam.
ReplyDeleteI think improving the public transport is the only way to solve the traffic problem here in Jakarta. There is no other way to solve it. The Jakarta’s officials already has already make some several attempts like increasing parking price, put more tax on people who has two or more cars but the result is always the same, the traffic become worsens and worsens. I also see that now they tried to make some flyover pass that maybe could help the traffic, but in my opinion that plan is useless. For somehow people will still buy new cars and any other transportation as it’s important for their daily life. If the public transportation is not improving, people will still buy new cars and if the public transportation is being improved many people will turn to it as it’s cheaper. Well I really hope that the MRT (Mass Rapid Transit) project is our answer for this problem and I hope that it could finish on time.
ReplyDeleteIt is good to know that Jakarta aiming for reduces 40 percent traffic in two years. I am not saying that it is not going to work, but I bet this goal is too damn hard to accomplished, because we have to go through many obstacles. Changing public habit to using public transportation it is not easy. First, we have to maintain the cleanliness in the transportation itself. Second, we must concern about the security and the coziness. If public can’t find these in the public transportation, I am sure that people will prefer using private transportation, because many advantages beyond using public transportation. I appreciate Wahyono’s idea about reducing traffic in Jakarta by taking turns to run on the streets, at least there is a solution for the traffic in the Jakarta. We know that Jokowi is the Governor in Jakarta, and I hope he can make it happen, because as I know he is doing well in the concept or the plan that he made.
ReplyDeleteThe article says that Jakarta's traffic will be better in 2 years. But seriously, the traffic is even worse! 2 weeks ago I came back to Jakarta for 3 days, and in the second days I'm so frustrated with the traffic and really want to go back to Jogja. One of the government policies is to difference the manufacture year or the number on its license plate, but I think it won't work because people will find a way to solve this problem and keep using their own vehicles, not the public transportation. For example, they will buy another vehicles using different manufacture year with their first car. Another problem is nowadays you can buy vehicles easily with credit, a lot of good promotion to attract people to purchase, especially motorcycles. Actually, there are a lot of problem according to this article, but I think the government has a lot of good plans and progress to handle this problem
ReplyDelete“Jakarta aims to reduce traffic……”
ReplyDeleteI wish that King Solomon was alive and healthy and kind enough to give a bit of his wisdom to help Jakarta with its congestion, I really do.
“…….20.7 million people go in and out of the capital on a daily basis and 56.8 percent of them use their own vehicle.”
This is what is wrong. The 20.7 million people that go in and out Jakarta on a daily basis are not all from Jakarta, so the 56.8 percent vehicles are not all Jakarta-registered or Jabodetabek-registered making the traffic worse. I think that the government should make a policy out of this. So that the only vehicles wander in Jakarta are Jabodetabek-registered; the number plate starts with the letter B.
Stronger policies for instance limiting age of vehicles, removing completely fuel subsidy for private vehicles in Jakarta. By then, as rational beings, Jakartans would see that it is economically more beneficial to take public transports rather than using their own vehicles. Thence, the number of private vehicles on the street would be reduced and traffic congestion is going to be a problem of the past.
Good luck.
Jakarta, the one most crowded traffic in Indonesia. Well, I don’t really think that the plan will work in only 2 years. Keep in mind, the total number of the vehicle in Jakarta are more than 13 million. 2 years target maybe just simply too rush, as Rozano mentioned before.
ReplyDelete“Banning people from buying cars may violate free trade, so the best we can do is to allow only certain vehicles — either by color, manufacture year or the number on its license plate — taking turns to run on the streets only on certain days,” Even this has applied in Jakarta now, it gives no significant change. Still lots of traffic everywhere, especially in the morning, lunch time, and when everyone’s heading home.
But, surprisingly, Jakarta become so deserted in holidays such as Ied day, Christmas, and other holidays, which means that almost of Jakarta population, was out of Jakarta. So I think, the best way to get the traffic solution is to move most of the population into another region.
As the capital city of Indonesia, Jakarta traffic problem is one of the major problem that still remain unsolved as the growth of the population in Jakarta still high. With the high grown in population it will be followed by the high grown of vehicle which resulting the overloading vehicle in the street than causes the traffic jam. I find my self agreeing with the ERP strategies that are mentioned in the article, and i think with this strategy people in Jakarta would think twice before using their precious vehicle to go to work and preferred to use the bus or train as their transportation. Yet again i could only hope that under Jokowi's leadership Jakarta traffic jam problem would definitely decrease, but from what I've seen so far Jakarta was already getting better after nearly a years after Jokowi's governance in Jakarta. The bus way lines are improved so then no more vehicle except for the bus way on the lines, the infrastructure was improved by the newly build fly over that may help the traffic jam in the crowded sector and also the monorail project that would began soon.
ReplyDeleteTraffic jam has become a problem that is hard to avoid in the big cities around the world. I think one of the worst in the world is Jakarta . Every morning and evening, major roads in Jakarta could not avoid jams. Jakarta has become the center of economic activity; I think it is the main cause. Because of this, many immigrants come to work in Jakarta. Moreover, they prefer to use private vehicles, as public transport facilities are still inadequate. In addition, the government seems to facilitate the people who use personal vehicles with fuel subsidies. With the fuel subsidy, the cost of fuel for the journey every day is not too expensive. Consequently, it would be a lot of people who use their own vehicles. If the government wants to reduce the traffic in Jakarta, they need long-term solutions, and certainly can’t be done instantly. The government should resolve the problem from its root, which is expanding the center of economic activities. So, everyone is not only focused to come to Jakarta. Another solution, government reduces fuel subsidies, and on the other hand improves public transportation. So, people will move from the use of private vehicles to the use of public transport.
ReplyDeleteTraffic Jam is such as a complex problem, it has been unsolved for several years. Since there is a cheap car program which is held by government, I think it getting worse. It’s still a major problem that government should pay attention more. The traffic is really terrible during the peak hours in the morning when people go to work, school and evening when they come back home. I think government should take an action such as control the number of cars, driving license approval and the road system. Government can build more fly-over, underground train service, strict traffic rule, Monorail and remove the worthless vehicle which is still used by people.
ReplyDeleteI’ve ever trapped in a traffic jam for about 6 hours and it came as disaster for me. I got stuck and could do nothing, I just felt so mad, but what can I do? Just enjoy the traffic.
Traffic jam is such a common phenomenon in Jakarta, which has incurred from many years ago and it could not be totally solved till now. we heard that Jakarta just have their idolized governor; Jokowi whose many people said that he has the "magic" power in leading the province, i do hope so, but there still lacks in many of cases, traffic jam is the biggest one. I understand why so many cars in Jakata, why so many people in Indonesia love to go to Jakarta, it is because Jakarta is the capital city in Indonesia and many people made an assumption that by moving to Jakarta they could have a better life, many people become reckless to move to Jakarta and that caused a big explotion in vehicles. I think to reduce the traffic jam is by optimizing the public transportation and the citizen should also understand and conscious to use the public transportation.
ReplyDeleteJakarta’s traffic is clearly inevitable. Basically there is no area in that city where the horrible traffic doesn’t occur. This has been a neglected problem, and it gets worse day by day. Suppose both the government and citizen knows that this immense traffic is happening, but there are little effort shown by both sides to solve this. The government should have done something immediately when there were signs that there is a possibility of traffic way back then. They should have predicted this situation, and made an effort to improve the infrastructure.
ReplyDeleteYes, they did try to build monorails, but obviously they didn’t continue working on that until it’s finished and fully operating. People who lived in Jakarta might be familiar with the pillars in Senayan. I’m not sure what is the exact reason they stopped building it, but I think that was a great idea. Then they tried to operate a new mass transportation, which is TransJakarta. The problem is the lane that they use was originally a part of the road. It would’ve worked better if they made their own lane, because right now it only causes more congestion. And the other problem relates to the lack of operating bus that runs through out the city. I’ve heard that they are trying to make something similar to Singapore’s MRT, but it won’t operate to all areas of the city because it’s costly. They should invest money to reduce the amount of traffic in Jakarta. With the current traffic condition, both the government and citizens should cooperate to make a better and comfortable living space.
well i have lived in jakarta since i was a child, and jakarta is very well known for their crowded city, flood, and for their traffic jam. well jakarta traffic is getting more worse than before. when i was in jakarta, when i went home by car from the airport. i got stuck in a traffic for almost 2 hours, and it is very frustrating. but i think for the statement that jakarta will reduce the traffic for forty percent in 2014 is possible. because in the coming years jakarta will improve their public transportation. I've heard that in the coming years trans jakarta will be free for all the people and it will encouraged people to use public transportation. okay that is all of opinion about this blog post, and i hope for the best of jakarta. i hope that jakarta traffic jam will decrease in the following years. thank you.
ReplyDelete“Jakarta aim to reduce traffic by 40 percent in 2 years” is the head of the article, and this article is published a year ago. Let's look at the reality. Instead of reducing by 40 percent, the traffic in Jakarta has actually increased. In my opinion as Jakarta citizen who live in Jogja is I don’t think that the government is gonna fulfill the target, 40 percent is quite an impossible number to achieve for 2 years. It's just in the matter of days till 2013 end, and 2014 is just right around the corner.
ReplyDeleteRaising the tax for vehicle, parking space, or highway tickets maybe could be the right solution for a short term plan to reduce the amount of cars going out to the streets at the same time.
Hi Johanes Indra Hardojo, Can I call you Indra? I hope it supposed to be your nickname. I’m so agree with your comment Indra, specially your last paragraph about your opinion about the solution to reduce traffic in Jakarta. What you have said about your solution such a raising tax for vehicle, but I think there’s should an exception about this rule. Not all vehicle should be raised for their tax maybe this rule should apply only for personal vehicle because if all vehicle applied by this rule it will affect some problems such for public transportation’s vehicle. Same like raising tax for vehicle rules I think the other solutions should gives an exception like that. Last, I think your solution have been trying for times for years from our government but I think that efforts not giving a good effect for Jakarta’s traffic. In my opinion, government should gives more good and comfortable public transportation that make a great effect for Jakarta’s traffic
DeleteAlthough it is a bit impossible, I had high hopes that the capital’s traffic congestion could be solved with the integrated transportation system, which had been included in regional spatial planning. Private vehicle owners should voluntarily switch to public transport, given a choice of transportation mode [all of which will be integrated in to the city transport grid. The Government should also build several transit-oriented developments across the capital region and some park-and-ride centers, all of which will be integrated into a city-wide public transport grid. Park-and-ride areas are expected to enable people riding motorcycles or bicycles to park their vehicles and continue their trips using the train, the mass rapid transit (MRT), light rail transit (LRT), monorail or busway. The government is supposed to add more public transportation modes so that there will be no reason for private vehicle owners not to switch from driving to using the public transportation system. By doing so, the heavy traffic of Jakarta could be reduced significantly.
ReplyDeleteActually I appreciate DKI Jakarta’s Governor Mr. Joko Widodo (Jokowi) confidence when he stated that in 2 years he can reduce 40% of traffic in Jakarta. But in my opinion to reduce the traffic in Jakarta will takes more than 2 years, as we can see now public transport in Jakarta still low from the expectations, the quality wasn’t good enough even some buses in Jakarta didn’t have an Air-con makes the citizen uncovy to used the public transport. So most of the citizens prefer to used their own cars or motorcycle or private transportations and each year the number of private car is increasing and inversely the number of public transport didn’t increase at all. To solve the traffic in Jakarta, public transportation should become the answer to reduce the number of private transportation, and the new public transportation should have good quality and service. We know that MRT and Monorail project was already started and let’s hope that those 2 new public transports in Jakarta can solve the problem to reduce the number of traffic in Jakarta.
ReplyDeleteI actually can not assess whether the conditions of congestion in Jakarta is now diminishing or even worse, after I read this article I asked my parents who live in Jakarta about how the current state, to be honest my parents said that since from November 2012 to December 2013 the current level of congestion that occurs almost not reduced, I think the government's policy of LCGC (Low Cost Green Car) even worsen the situation of congestion in Jakarta, the central government says it wants to help the local government about resolving the problem of congestion in Jakarta but the fact I doubt it, I think the congestion in Jakarta compounded by some politicians who deliberately want to topple the reign of the current governor, Joko Widodo is currently the governor of Jakarta he tried to reduce congestion in Jakarta by buying hundreds of TransJakarta buses, to reduce the absorption of the budget he ask customs to eliminate taxes on the import of china bus but customs did not allow, in the other hand LCGC when given permission not to pay the import tax fee, I think this is the decision of the central government is very bad, even embarrassing.
ReplyDeleteThis article was being written in 2012, so the deadline would be in 2014.
ReplyDeleteTo be honest, I think it is quite impossible. Well, it is not that I underestimate Jakarta’s government, but yeah it will be really hard to make it considering the increasing percentage of road and vehicle.
There is a huge gap between them, which show that the numbers of road can’t support the numbers of vehicle in Jakarta. I mean how come 0,01% afford to support the increasing amount of vehicle which is 11 %. It doesn’t make any sense.
“The sources of congestion in those areas vary, besides they serve as main and busy roads. Officers from the agency and the Satpol PP are required to clamp down on on-street parking, sidewalk vendors and public transportation vehicles that stop illegally,”
This kind of action has been done by Jakarta’s government this year. There is an action to reduce the sidewalk vendors such as remove them to another place. They also set some regulations and restrict the application of the regulation itself. It helps even though it’s not that helpful.
Wahyono said it will be hard to ban the citizen to buy vehicle, because it will affect free trade. However, I think he should consider that kind of action by setting some regulation to restrict the increasing amount of vehicle. Maybe it will be affecting free trade but yeah it is the best way to reduce traffic I think. Sometimes, you have to make a choice when there is no win-win solution, so you should have to choose which one is more important. However, in my opinion 2 years won’t be enough.
As we know that Jakarta has a problem with the traffic. All the previous governor have given their solution to solve the traffic problem. The regulation about solution of traffic also have been produced. But in reality Jakarta’s traffic become worse and worse because so many cars have been sold annually.
ReplyDeleteJakarta aim to reduce traffic by 40 percent in 2 years is not a dreaming only but they have to start with step by step. They have to know the root problem, for example a parking problem, a discipline in driving, stopping place for the public transportation so they can not stop anywhere to get on or get off passengers.
Sometimes a DPRD think they have to learn from other country which they have solve the problem but in reality that each country has a different problem.
My conclusion is that to solve the traffic problem in Jakarta need to prepare a good public transportation and provide a huge car park to allow the drivers to park their cars during they are in Jakarta.
The current governor, Jokowi has made a good decision that have to give a penalty for the driver’s non trans Jakarta driving in the route for bus trans Jakarta.
I can’t really say that Jakarta will be free from all those traffic congestion. Talking about the people living in Jakarta, there are too many people who live there. And some working people who live outside from Jakarta sometimes bring their own vehicle and make the number of cars and motorbike in Jakarta getting bigger and bigger. To make Jakarta free from the traffics, I think it need years. And in my opinion, Jokowi’s solution won’t work fully because of the limited time of reign. Maybe the problem can be solved if the people living in Indonesia, especially in Jakarta not breaking the traffic rules. People always underestimate the traffic rules and park everywhere and take over the busway’ lane. I really wish that I can use the public transportation in Indonesia just as the same when I use public transport in Singapore which is safe and even faster than using the private vehicle. And for final words, I think Indonesia need to make the people more aware of the rules in road and to respect other people.
ReplyDelete40% by 2014? 2014 will be around in just a couple week and in my opinion there’s nothing significant that has happened over the past years. I believe, even if the traffic has reduced, it won’t be as much as 40% though. Since Jokowi has elected to be the Governor, Jakarta has kept on progressing to work on the Monorail which worked has stopped for a while in the previous’ Governor’s time. Traffic is obstructing your mobility. You waste more time than you should to travel between one place to the other one. The Government of Jakarta should make a serious effort to successfully make Jakarta to become such a more mobile country so the people living in Jakarta can make the best out of their lives, not only having their time wasted on the road. So, the people of Jakarta could use their time that’s been wasted on the road to maybe do some exercise or else which can lead to a healthier people.
ReplyDeleteUnder the new governor of Jakarta, I saw a lot of improvement made by Jokowi and Ahok in Jakarta. For example, they successfully eradicate corruption in the local government’s body place the street seller into the more proper place. But, in case of traffic jam that happened everyday in Jakarta (except in Lebaran day) in my opinion, Jokowi and Ahok only make a little improvement. It is true that they already make a lot of breakthrough and realizing a lot of program that the former governor can’t do that such as building commuter line and many more. It is true that the trend in Jakarta also change. People are starting to use public transportation rather than using private vehicle. I don’t know about the fact is the number of vehicle in Jakarta has already decreased or not but when I come to Jakarta, I found that traffic jam is still happened everywhere so I conclude that the program might be running well but it need the awareness of Jakarta’s civilians to make it effective.
ReplyDeleteJakarta aims to reduce traffic by 40% percent in 2 years.
ReplyDeleteWe already know that Jakarta is a capital city of Indonesia. As a capital city, Jakarta certainly has many problems in many aspects. One of them is Jakarta’s traffic jam. I am seriously not sure about this statement “Jakarta aims to reduce traffic by 40% percent in 2 years”. It sounds like impossible for me. Currently, Jokowi and Ahok worked as a governor and a vice governor. From my sight, they are a good partnership than others but they should have brilliant ideas to solve many problems in that capital city especially about gridlock. But if they don’t have brilliant measures, I predict that the city’s main streets will be totally gridlocked in 2014 because probably the number of vehicles (both two-wheeled and four-wheeled) will be increase by 2014. Therefore, I suggest to the government to build a system of Mass Rapid Transit (MRT). Of course, it will be one of the most expensive Jakarta’s projects but it will decrease number of gridlock in Jakarta.
Believe!
ReplyDeleteIf you cannot believe it, it cannot happen. The people in Jakarta really need to think about their situation right now. That kind of traffic is horrible. They should use mass transportation instead of their own vehicle.
What the government really need to do is making a better mass transportation system, and raise the tax for vehicle. Raise it so people didn't want to buy or use their own vehicle, and use a mass transportation instead. This kind of approach is dangerous but effective. It is dangerous because corruption in the tax will be explode. So, government really need to see this well.
Well, it is just my opinion. But I personally think that in 2 years (prior to this news published), it is almost impossible. People really don't like to change their habit that much. But I believe that the new governor Jokowi could make some change to Jakarta into a better place. For now, it really hurt that people talk bad about Indonesia just because they go to Jakarta.
I honestly don’t know if it’s possible that the traffic will reduce 40% in 2014. I know I’m not living in Jakarta but as every time I visit Jakarta I always experienced to be stuck in a traffic jam for hours and it was really bothering me. Last year, when I’m taking a taxi from airport to MEIS for a concert took me 2 hours and half but thank god I managed to be there on time so I didn't missed the concert. But I can’t lie, Jakarta traffic is really bad. I thought by having a toll streets in Jakarta can reduce the traffic but it’s not. So until now, I’m still hesitated to say that it will be possible the traffic will reduced this year. I hope Jokowi have a good plan to solve this problem and try to solve it as soon as possible. People in Jakarta can’t live in this way, they still have another thing to do apart from being stuck in traffic jam. I hope when Jokowi has conducted the plan, all of the Jakara citizen will support his action to reduce the traffic. I do really hope in this year, the plan for reducing traffic in Jakarta will succeed.
ReplyDeleteWhat so called traffic jams in Jakarta is really a common thing, if a person thinks of Jakarta, the first word that will pops into their head is macet/traffic jam. To get rid of the traffic jam in two years of time is almost impossible, furthermore, the former governor of Jakarta did not do anything or tried anything meaningful to reduce the traffic in Jakarta. This article was written in 2012 so the traffic in Jakarta should have reduced by so many in 2014, and we should be able to see the changes in 2013, but as of 2013, there are not much of a difference in the traffic situation of Jakarta.
ReplyDeleteRight now, the governor of Jakarta has changed and people are trusting Jokowi, the new governor to fix the traffic jams in Jakarta. As we all know, the projects such as the improvements of public transport, the building of monorails, and etcetera did not go as planned on the hand of the former governor and that is why the traffic has not getting better. Recently, Jokowi has picked up the broken pieces and kept the ‘abandoned’ projects going, let’s just hope that these projects will fix the traffic jams in Jakarta, hopefully by mid 2014 we will feel the difference.
Good luck on reducing the traffic in Jakarta! My mean seriously though, no sarcasm intended. I really mean it. The traffic in Jakarta is killing me when every time I visit it. People could say Jakarta is such a beautiful city, yes because they live in a luxurious apartment with Fortuner or Alphard on their garage drinking Starbucks while eating Pepper Lunch together with their friends who wear Mango, Uniqlo, and Louis Vitton. The ERP have been applied in the neighborhood country, Singapore. The tariff for ERP changes every time. Around 7-9, where the road is so crowded the ERP is high. But after 9 it will decrease because it is not crowded anymore. Other thing that concern me is the discipline of Jakarta's residents. I always thing they their morale in the road have been broken they easily cross the light when it is red, especially those who ride motorcycle, simply worst than intercity buses in Jogja. I just hope the residents will cooperate with this program and lead Jakarta to a better future.
ReplyDeleteI was born in Jakarta. I lived in Jakarta for almost 18 years. So, I’m so depressed about traffic in Jakarta. However, there’s a lot of news that Jakarta has reduce the traffic for last two years but I think the fact is not affect me in my daily life in Jakarta. If you see Jakarta in office hours movement, at the morning or the evening on the satellite such a google maps or the other apps you will see how Jakarta is ocean of cars or motorcycle. But if there’s a research that said Jakarta has reduce the traffic for last two years I think it was affect after the governer election of DKI Jakarta. After Jokowi replaced Fauzi Bowo who has listed as governor of DKI Jakarta for years maybe it was a time for Jakarta do a lot of changes. As Jokowi listed as our governor I believe he has motivation to bring changes to Jakarta
ReplyDeleteJakarta has a huge traffic issues which mostly caused by the excessive usage of private. Mostly, in a house, there should be at least 2 cars for a family consists of 3-4 members. Sometimes, in a family, each member can own his/her personal car! This condition can increase the rate of traffic from time to time. From the solution given by Mr. Wahyono will not be simply accepted by the people. The truth is, encouraging public transportation will only support a small portion of people, and meanwhile other people with high mobility prefer using their own car. With high concentration of people in Indonesia, traffic in Jakarta seems to be an avoidable issue. Most government policies related with traffic are easy to slip off. The only thing that could save Jakarta from its traffic problem is the consideration of each people to limit the usage of personal vehicle and start using public transport instead. Government should find a way to make people believe that what could entirely stop their problem is themselves.
ReplyDeleteIt is very important to reduce private transportation. Now, whenever you go, you will get caught by heavy traffic jam and you spent much of your time only in the road. Well, I think that now the world also facing global warming and we must reduce the use of vehicle that use gasoline. Traffic jam only make it worst.
ReplyDeleteWell, to make people use public transportation in Jakarta is quiet hard. The first one is because it is dirty, not in good condition, the driver also not really good at driving, and we cannot predict when the bus or angkot will come. The worst part of use public transportation is when the angkot do not have air conditioner, too many passengers, and you in a heavy traffic jam.
I think, the governor needs to fix the public transportation first. Well make appropriate public transportation and fix the system. After that, I think it is fine if the governor want to higher the tax or the price of gasoline. Well, there will be many impacts if they do it but if it is necessary, I think people will understand. Actually, I want to go to many places using bicycle but it is scary because many people do not drive motorcycle or car properly.
Traffic jam has become a big problem that is hard to avoid and solve that problem in the big cities in Indonesia such as Jakarta. As time goes by the vehicles in Jakarta is increasing. People at Jakarta want to free from traffic but it is really hard to make it happen, because they don’t have an another choice if they want to do their activities such as work, school and many more with their private motorbike or cars cause to Jakarta don’t have a good place for transportation system. Nowdays, Trans Jakarta service is not going good effectively. Then many people want the government to do something to solve this problem. The government has done many things to reduce the traffic in Jakarta for long time ago, but the result is still not good. The percentage of people and the transportation is not comparable, then any people from other city want to immigrants come to work in Jakarta, because Jakarta has become the enter of economic life. I think that’s why Jakarta has a big problem with traffic jam. So, I hope the government can solve this problem carefully and effectively for the better future about Jakarta.
ReplyDeleteThe current method on reducing the number of vehicles on the road of Jakarta is not working so well, so I really think the government should start questioning their method and open a forum to create a new and effective plan. One of the major contributor of the ever-increasing vehicles is the minimum reliability of public transports. The problem is, most public transports only takes you from one spot to another, and some might need a transit that would require more travelling, with no other public transportation to take you to the other transit spot. In many countries, the public transports requires transits to get from point A and point B, but the major difference between public transport outside and inside Indonesia is the main connector for transit points; Indonesia still lacks other mode of transport to take passengers between transit points.
ReplyDeleteThis topic is pretty interesting for me. Well, when are talking about the traffic in Jakarta it would not be endlessness. Traffic has been become a major problem in Jakarta. There will always be traffic jams everywhere. I have been living in Jakarta for over 19 years and the traffic problems have never been solved, yet it is even getting worse every year to year.
ReplyDeleteI think couples of the solutions of reducing this traffic problems in Jakarta are by banning people to have more than two cars in one family, and banning people to have more than one motorcycle for each family.
The government also has to take actions of repairing the public transportations such as Transjakarta, Train, Subway, so that people want to use public transportations instead. Not only that, the government has to reduce and switch the angkot, metro mini, kopaja and other public transportations with Transjakarta and train only, so the number of the public transportations could be controlled. It would result in reducing traffics.
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