Pay Road Policy In Jakarta Becomes A Community Event Turning To General Transportation

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JAKARTA - The Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) policy or electronic paid road is considered the right step to reduce congestion in the capital city of DKI Jakarta.

Chairman of the Advocacy and Community Sector of the Indonesian Transportation Society (MTI) Djoko Setijowarno assessed that the policy to be implemented would later be more efficient than existing policies.

As is known, Singapore is one of the neighboring countries that has implemented this policy and in fact has proven to be able to unravel congestion in the country.

This should be a consideration for the DKI Jakarta Transportation Agency to immediately implement the policy.

"The problem is whether it is efficient or not, if it is odd or odd, the DKI Provincial Government will spend money on those who supervise it, but they don't get money, if ERP gets money, there is no need to use other people who guard it, and the money can be saved later to increase the public transportation subsidy," said Djoko when contacted by VOI, Wednesday, January 11.

Djoko added that the policy being studied may be burdensome for the community, but later it can maximize the use of public transportation.

"Then, the ERP, right, is one of the instruments to control people using excessive private vehicles to switch to using public transportation," he said.

"I see, especially in Jakarta, transportation is generally adequate and good. Not to mention later there will be an Integrated Rail Cross (LRT) which can be an additional transportation for people to travel to Jakarta," he added.

Nevertheless, Djoko suggested that there are other strategies that can be carried out by the DKI Jakarta Transportation Agency to help unravel congestion, such as increasing parking costs in the city center and increasing progressive taxes.

"Yes, that's right (This policy is good), but later it can be added parking rates in the middle of the city are getting more expensive, the parking space is a little, not much, it can be like that. Every house that has a car must have a garage, like in Singapore, right," he said.

For your information, the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government plans to implement an Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) policy or an electronic paid road. Regarding the tariff, the DKI Jakarta Transportation Agency has proposed the amount to range from Rp. 5,000 to Rp. 19,900 for one pass.

In the draft Draft Regional Regulation (Raperda) for Electronic Traffic Control (PPLE), it is explained that this policy is an electronic restriction of motorized vehicles on certain roads, areas, and times.

In detail, the policy for the traffic sector can reduce congestion, shorten travel time, improve traffic safety, and change traffic behavior.

Meanwhile, the legal sector is the acceleration of electronic/E-TLE traffic law enforcement, cutting the legal judicial bureaucracy for traffic violators, and bringing order to the public.

Next, for the public transportation sector, this policy can improve public transportation services, encourage the transfer of modes of vehicles, realize more affordable mass public transport rates, and improve road traffic performance.

As for the environmental sector, it can reduce noise pollution and reduce air pollution from vehicle smoke.