Strategy To Overcome Traffic Jams Simatupang: Planned Restrictions On Kendaran Entering Jakarta

Secretary of the Directorate General of Land Transportation of the Ministry of Transportation (Kemenhub) Ahmad Yani. (Photo: Mery Handayani/VOI)

The Ministry of Transportation (Kemenhub) has intervened to unravel the density of traffic at a number of points prone to traffic jams in Jakarta.

One of them often happens on Jalan TB Simatupang.

Secretary of the Directorate General of Land Transportation of the Ministry of Transportation (Kemenhub) Ahmad Yani said that his party was discussing with the DKI Provincial Government to overcome the problem of traffic congestion in the area.

Yani said that one of the solutions proposed by the DKI Provincial Government was to limit vehicles with a police number code (nopol) outside Jakarta to enter Jakarta.

"The DKI Regional Government is currently asking us to provide guidelines, especially regarding the distribution of vehicles that will enter from outside Jakarta to Jakarta," he told reporters at the Ministry of Transportation Office, Jakarta, written Tuesday, September 16.

Yani said this plan emerged after seeing the availability of transportation infrastructure serving from outside Jakarta into the Jakarta area.

One of the considerations is Transjakarta services. The public transportation serves a number of new routes to Bekasi, Depok, Tangerang to Bogor.

"Now public transportation such as Transjakarta has reached several locations outside of DKI Jakarta. So that the guidelines related to restrictions on vehicles entering Jakarta they also ask for input from us," he said.

In addition, Yani said transportation nodes are also being developed in Jakarta to support the increase in the coverage of urban public transportation services.

"If you look at the development, the most important thing is that intermodal integration can be carried out. This is where the importance of the Directorate General of Integration," he explained.

Not only overcoming congestion, according to Yani, integration between transportation modes also contributes to reducing the cost of spending on the community.

Currently, the cost of spending for the transportation sector is still around 40 percent of the total revenue.

"This is expected to cost less than 20 percent of transportation, the developed country's transportation costs are below 15 percent of people's income," he explained.

Previously, the Ministry of Transportation (Kemenhub) through the Directorate General of Multimodal Transportation Integration (Intram) revealed that the average transportation costs incurred by Jakarta residents reached around Rp. 1.5 million per month.

Director General Of Intram Risal Wasal said the transportation costs incurred by Jakarta residents were quite high. However, Jakarta residents' expenses are still lower than Surabaya and Bekasi.

"Jakarta averages Rp1,590,000 issued for transportation. Surabaya turns out to be higher than Jakarta, Rp1,620,000. Bekasi is Rp1,900,000," he said in a press background in Jakarta, Thursday, July 31.

Based on the data presented by Risal, the transportation costs incurred by Depok residents are quite high, namely Rp1,802,751 per month. Then, Bogor Rp1,235,613 per month. Then, Jayapura Rp1,127,984 per month.

Risal said that the high transportation costs incurred by residents of Jakarta and Bekasi were due to additional costs for online motorcycle taxis (ojol) to public transportation such as trains, to vehicle parking costs.

"The questions are cheap Rp. 3,500 to Rp. 6,000, but the problem is the ojol Rp. 25,000, the parking is Rp. 10,000, this is what we will study," he explained.