Making The State Lose IDR 43 Trillion, The Ministry Of Transportation Targets Free ODOL Trucks In 2023

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JAKARTA - The Ministry of Transportation noted that losses suffered by the state due to overloaded trucks or over-dimensional and over-loading (ODOL) reached Rp43 trillion per year. Therefore, the government is currently working on a number of ways to make Indonesia free of ODOL by 2023.

Director General of Land Transportation, Budi Setiyadi, who said that one of the challenges of the presence of goods transport vehicles in Indonesia is the effort to reduce ODOL vehicles.

Furthermore, said Budi, ODOL causes the state to lose quite a bit. This is because ODOL trucks incur large social costs. Among these are high fuel costs, contributing greatly to road damage, pollution and accidents.

"As we know, based on the PUPR Ministry's report, in one year the state's losses due to ODOL trucks reached Rp43 trillion," he said, in Jakarta, Friday, June 4.

As of November 2019, Budi said, based on the results of monitoring goods transport trucks in 73 UPPKB, there were around 2,073,698 vehicles that entered the UPPKB, of which 39 percent or 809,496 trucks violated the rules.

"The most violations found were on over-loading trucks, amounting to 84.43 percent," he said.

According to Budi, currently road transportation is still the prima donna for logistics activities with sharing mode of 90.4 percent. Several efforts to reduce the activity of ODOL vehicles are by prohibiting overloaded and dimensional vehicles from entering toll roads as well as by maximizing the operation of UPPKB on national roads.

Furthermore, Budi explained that this effort is also aimed at safety and diverting some road transportation to other modes such as rail transportation and sea transportation.

"Another effort as a form of seriousness in eradicating ODOL perpetrators, the Ministry of Transportation in collaboration with the Indonesian Police and the Regional Government has made serious efforts, including normalizing over-dimensional trucks. In addition, innovation in the form of restoring justice for perpetrators who have good intentions to return their vehicles to their original condition. Initially, official workshops are also being promoted. It is targeted that Indonesia will be free of ODOL by 2023," he said.

Based on these facts, Budi said, it is hoped that the government can find the right regulatory formula to handle ODOL trucks that are not contradictory to the industrial world, so that Indonesia can match other countries that have achieved zero ODOL.

"Of course the Ministry of Transportation cannot make it happen without cooperation with the government and related partners. The Ministry of Transportation invites all parties, from business actors, transportation operators, to goods owners to obey the rules set by the government for the common good," he said.

On the same occasion, Director of Road Traffic of the Directorate General of Land Transportation, Suharto said that one of the efforts to achieve zero ODOL 2023 can be achieved through international webinars. He said, this webinar can provide an understanding in regulating the operation of goods transport vehicles on the road with benchmarks from the experience of its implementation in other countries.

"This is very important so that our freight transport system follows the policy of safety and security standards. Therefore, we need to understand current national and international regulations," he explained.

Suharto said he was optimistic that the target could be achieved if it was assisted by the active participation and contributions of all parties. According to him, this collaboration will provide substantial results for our efforts to improve the regulation of ODOL vehicles.

"I hope that synergies and mutually beneficial cooperation as well as collaboration between Indonesia, USA, South Korea, Thailand, France and all governments, freight forwarders and parties involved, I hope our cooperation will continue," he said.