Account-Based Tickets, DKI Provincial Government Evaluates The Economic Feasibility Of Free Transjakarta Users

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JAKARTA - The DKI Jakarta Provincial Government is still finalizing the account based ticketing (ABT) system or account-based tickets in the trial process. One of the plans included in this trial is the evaluation of economic feasibility in recipients of free Transjakarta service programs.

Since several years ago, the DKI Provincial Government has made this public transportation service free to 15 community groups. Head of the DKI Jakarta Transportation Agency, Syafrin Liputo, said that the feasibility of the user's economic status included in the 15 groups would be evaluated.

"According to the Governor's Regulation, there are 15 groups that are free. Of course with us probing public data, then we can identify whether it is true that A really gets free services or he has to pay," Syafrin told reporters, Monday, October 2.

In Governor Regulation Number 133 of 2018, it is stated that there are 15 groups that receive free Transjakarta services, including civil servants and retired DKI Jakarta civil servants, DKI Jakarta contract workers, KJP recipients, certain private employees who live in flats, Thousand Islands ID cards, Rakin recipients.

Then, it also includes members of the TNI-Polri, veterans, people with disabilities, elderly PAUD teachers, jumantik cadres, a team to encourage the empowerment of family welfare, as well as house of worship guards.

In the discourse on implementing the ABT system, Syafrin said that the DKI Provincial Government can analyze user profiles based on population data to evaluate Transjakarta services for free.

Syafrin said that users who are declared unfit to receive free services will be removed from the program. So, this will streamline the amount of transportation subsidies disbursed from the APBD.

"15 groups that are free, of course we will profile. Then, we get, for example, the person concerned is not categorized as a low-income person. So, it doesn't seem like he gets a free Transjakarta rate," he explained.

Then, regarding the plan to adjust the Transjakarta tariff which is distinguished according to the economic status and the ID cards of each passenger from the ABT system, continued Syafrin, it will not be implemented in the near future.