Pramono Wants To Create A Waterway, DKI Transportation Agency Says There Are Sea Transjakarta Plans

Head of the DKI Jakarta Transportation Agency, Syafrin Liputo. (Photo: Diah/VOI)

JAKARTA - Head of the DKI Jakarta Transportation Agency, Syafrin Liputo, responded to the wishes of Jakarta Governor Pramono Anung to build a waterway or mass public transportation connecting islands in the Thousand Islands.

Syafrin explained that the DKI Provincial Government has a plan to develop public transportation managed by Transjakarta in the sea, precisely the waters of the Thousand Islands.

"In the future, this will have the same pattern. Later, if by the service on the road via Transjakarta is Rp per kilometer, then in the sea there will be Rp per mile. And it is being prepared to be continued and integrated with the current Transjakarta service," Syafrin told reporters, Saturday, September 20.

For now, there are two patterns of water transportation services that connect between islands in the Thousand Islands and those connected to North Jakarta.

Among them are people's ships owned by ship or boat business actors individually. Furthermore, the ship owned by the DKI Jakarta Transportation Agency. Now, plans for the procurement of sea Transjakarta are starting.

"(Sea Transjakarta) a comprehensive study is still being carried out because for that it is still being studied by the institution that will later run it," explained Syafrin.

Previously, Pramono Anung explained one of the transportation ideas he would run if he was elected in the 2024 Pilkada and served as Governor of Jakarta along with his deputy, Rano Karno.

The idea is a mode of transportation in the waters as has been carried out in developed countries. "One of them is for the waters," said Pramono in East Jakarta, Tuesday, September 17.

Pramono said that the transportation of water that serves the mobility of the people in the Thousand Islands could later be managed by regional-owned enterprises (BUMD) to state-owned enterprises (BUMN).

"Who provides the means of transportation is BUMD, it can be BUMN, it can be ASDP. So, the routine of transportation to the Thousand Islands and to North Jakarta, West Jakarta, is well scheduled. Right now, it's not well scheduled," explained Pramono.