Minister Of Transportation Asks The Private Sector To Start Using Autonomous Vehicles

Minister of Transportation Budi Karya Sumadi in Tangerang Photo via Kemenhub

JAKARTA - The Minister of Transportation (Menhub) Budi Karya Sumadi continues to encourage the private sector to start using autonomous vehicles (unmanned vehicles).

"I am proud that the private sector has played an active role in supporting the government's efforts to bring this future vehicle in Indonesia. This intelligent transport system is a necessity that will happen," said Budi Karya, in Tangerang, Friday, May 20, quoted from Antara.

The Minister of Transportation said collaboration with the private sector will continue to be carried out in order to accelerate the use of autonomous transportation in Indonesia.

“The private sector has a more flexible and advanced system to take advantage of this kind of technology. If the private sector plays an active role this will be a tremendous force. We encourage the private sector to be involved in the construction of the transportation system in the National Capital City (IKN) later," he said.

The Minister of Transportation said that the development of IKN was carried out by carrying out the Smart, Green and Sustainability (Smart, Green and Sustainability) concept.

The presence of smart and environmentally friendly transportation such as autonomous electric vehicles will make Indonesia a leading country.

"We have to believe we can make this happen and this momentum is right when Indonesia is trusted to hold the Presidency of this year's G-20 Summit," he said.

He hopes that in the future he will be able to present autonomous vehicles based on mass transportation in Indonesia.

The Minister of Transportation further said that the use of autonomous electric vehicles has a number of advantages when compared to conventional fossil fuel vehicles.

Starting from the low carbon emissions produced so that it is more environmentally friendly, to reducing the rate of accidents caused by human error.

Based on information from Sinar Mas Land, this autonomous electric vehicle comes from France with the trademark Navya Arma variant.

This vehicle will be operated at two location points, namely Q Big BSD City and the BSD Green Office Park area.

Navya Arma has an electric drive and a battery pack with a capacity of 33 kWh that can last for 9 hours.

The electric vehicle has dimensions of 4.7 mx 2.1 m with a passenger capacity of 15 people, with 11 sitting and 4 standing formations.

Arma is equipped with a variety of sensors ranging from the use of GPS (Global Positioning System), LIDAR (Light Radar) sensors combined with a high resolution camera for big data analysis, which will then be processed by a computer that has high specifications embedded in the car.

This unmanned electric transportation has the ability to accelerate, navigate, and can detect environmental conditions around it, including avoiding obstacles and making stops autonomously.

Also present at the inauguration were Head of the Archipelago Capital Authority Bambang Susantono, Tangerang Regent Achmad Zaki Iskandar, Head of JICA Indonesia Office Representative Takehiro Yasui, Group CEO Sinar Mas Land Michael Widjaja and Director General of Land Transportation Budi Setiyadi.