Pay The Toll Road Without Touching The Trial, This Is Minister Basuki's Doubles Whose Cellphone Is Still Nokia Jadul

JAKARTA - Minister of Public Works and Public Housing (PUPR) Basuki Hadimuljono again joked when giving a speech at the Hunindotech 4.0 event at The Westin Hotel, Jakarta, Tuesday, November 14.

On that occasion, Minister Basuki discussed changing the transaction system on toll roads.

Minister Basuki initially said that the contactless toll payment system or Multi Lane Free Flow (MLFF) would soon be piloted in the second week of December 2023 on the Bali Mandara Toll Road.

"Yes, (MLFF trial) around the second week of December," he said.

Basuki assessed that the toll payment system is still very new for Indonesia and has its own challenges.

He said that the transfer of cash transactions to non-cash also did not run smoothly. According to him, traditional Indonesian transactions are cash, and he has never made non-cash transactions.

Remembering, he is still using Nokia's cellphone. The cellphone is an old series, aka old age.

"You saw my cellphone ringing now, still Nokia," joked Basuki while showing his cellphone to the participants present.

Furthermore, Basuki said, the transformation towards digital is not an easy thing for Indonesia, including him.

"Transforming into a new digital era is not an easy thing for Indonesia, and also for Basuki," said Basuki, followed by laughter from the participants.

As is known, MLFF's technological innovation is a transaction service breakthrough on a touchless Toll Road which is carried out automatically through an application on a smartphone using a server based system with Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) technology and vehicle data recognized using a satellite.

Later, when MLFF technology begins to be implemented, Toll Road users can make non-cash payments without a card tap, namely only by downloading and registering personal data on an application called Cantas on their respective smartphones that have been connected to the internet. Then after calculating the rates connected to the application, the money from each payment instrument belonging to each user will also be reduced automatically.