Account-Based Transjakarta Tariffs Have Not Been Implemented In The Near Future

Illustration of Transjakarta (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Head of the DKI Jakarta Transportation Agency, Syafrin Liputo, emphasized that the difference in Transjakarta tariff adjustments according to the economic status and ID cards of each passenger will not be implemented in the near future.

The plan to implement the account based ticketing (ABT) system or account-based tickets will indeed be implemented. However, the DKI Provincial Government will not adjust the tariff based on the user profile.

"For the initial stage, what is important now is the benefit of using ABT, how to make people whose balances are usually lost and so on, this is there first," said Syafrin at DKI Jakarta City Hall, Monday, September 25.

In the early stages, the DKI Provincial Government runs this system to make it easier for users to pay for public transportation tickets, especially those using electronic money cards (KUE).

The ABT system, continued Syafrin, does not only apply to Transjakarta users. This application will also be implemented at the Jakarta MRT and Jakarta LRT.

"Users, usually if you use a card and card, the balance is also lost. Well, with account based ticketing, if the card is lost, the balance is still stored in the application. So when he wants to change the card, he just needs to put it back in the person again for the card," explained Syafrin.

Then, the implementation of the ABT system is also implemented to determine the profile of public transport users. From the user data collected, the DKI Provincial Government will only review the tariff adjustments that are distinguished based on economic status and ID cards between Jakarta residents and outside Jakarta.

The purpose of this tariff adjustment is to streamline the subsidies provided by the DKI Provincial Government. Later, the DKI Provincial Government will provide transportation subsidies or public service obligation (PSO) according to the data collected.

"Of course it's a long-term benefit after we collect user profiling data. We can find out whether the one using mass public transportation is Jakarta domicile or Bodetabek, as well as a more efficient PSO calculation. So, later it will be more targeted for the PSO," he added.