DKI Provincial Government Targets Paid Road System Regulations To Be Completed This Year

JAKARTA - Head of the DKI Jakarta Transportation Agency (Syafrin) Syafrin Liputo revealed the progress of the plan to implement a paid road pricing (ERP) system in Jakarta.

Syafrin said that the drafting of regulations in the form of regional regulations (perda) that regulate ERP will be completed this year, namely the Raperda on Traffic Need Management. So, after that the DKI Provincial Government can immediately draw up technical rules for its implementation

This Raperda is also prepared as a derivative rule of Law Number 2 of 2024 concerning the Province of the Special Region of Jakarta (UU DKJ), as a legal umbrella for traffic regulation when Jakarta is no longer the capital city.

"It is hoped that this year for ERP there will be local regulations directly so that the implementation can be carried out more quickly. Stay in the implementation level, after the legal product is finished," Syafrin told reporters, Tuesday, February 18.

Syafrin admitted that the discourse on implementing a paid road system was not a populist policy that was easy to accept. This is because the implementation of ERP has actually been prepared for several years. However, it had drawn rejection.

Not only that, ERP's plan had previously been finalized until the tender process. However, over time, the problem of failed auctions and discourse on implementing paid roads in Jakarta evaporated again.

"Indeed, I understand that the radical changes here are how odd-even turn into ERP. Because Jakarta is to change to electronic road pricing, the legal basis must be prepared which is PROven," he explained.

On that occasion, Syafrin emphasized that Jakarta had to change the paradigm of using public transportation, which was originally oriented towards private vehicles, into public transportation.

The ERP system, according to Syafrin, is an effort to control traffic that can prioritize and encourage the use of public transportation, and can transfer benefits to the cost of congestion from private vehicle use to public transportation and urban infrastructure.

"People are trying to come with a pattern of carrying private vehicles, we are making changes. The paradigm is changed to transit-oriented development. Our development is more transit-oriented," he concluded.