Minister Of Transportation Invites Communities To Collaborate To Build Data-Based Transportation

Minister of Transportation (Menhub) Dudy Purwagandhi opened the X Congress of the Indonesian Transportation Society (MTI) in Batam, Riau Islands, Saturday (15/11/2025). BETWEEN/HO-Humas Ministry of Transportation

JAKARTA - Minister of Transportation (Menhub), Dudy Purwagandhi invites the public to exchange ideas in building a transportation system based on data and science.

Dudy said the government, academics, industry, communities, and regulators must move together in the spirit of collaboration to build transportation.

"The Indonesian state is facing various transportation issues that are increasingly complex. In the midst of these challenges, the right policy can only be born through strong collaboration," said the Minister of Transportation when opening the X Congress of the Indonesian Transportation Society (MTI) in Batam, as stated in Jakarta, Sunday, November 16.

The Minister of Transportation conveyed several transportation issues, such as congestion in big cities, unfinished transportation safety issues, gradual inter-modal integration, and the transformation of energy-efficient vehicles that require a mature ecosystem.

Then, in disadvantaged, frontier, and outermost (3T) areas, the community is still waiting for proper access. Meanwhile, logistics business actors are waiting for an efficient and competitive system.

In the midst of climate change, extreme weather is also increasingly challenging for transportation infrastructure development, especially to support connectivity and logistics.

In detail, the Minister of Transportation emphasized the main issues of mutual concern. First, improving safety in all modes of transportation. Second, integration and modernization of urban transportation systems, third, accelerating sustainable transportation and electrification. Fourth, improving the quality of national logistics so that logistics costs are more competitive, and fifth, increasing human resources and preparing for climate change.

He considered the presence of MTI as a non-governmental organization to be very strategic to provide objective input, constructive criticism, and scientific-based policy recommendations.

"Therefore, I invite MTI to join hands with the Ministry of Transportation in formulating policies that are oriented towards safety, inclusiveness, sustainability, and national competitiveness. We need new studies, more adaptive roadmaps, as well as more intensive dialogue spaces between stakeholders," said the Minister of Transportation.

Ahead of Christmas and New Year 2025/2026, the Minister of Transportation also invited collaboration to ensure that people's journey was safe and safe.

"Security is a fixed price, non-negotiable. Ahead of the Christmas and New Year holidays, we continue to strengthen inspections, hold ramp checks to ensure technical feasibility, and continuously improve human resource competencies," he added.

The Minister of Transportation is waiting for fresh ideas and real recommendations that can be followed up from the MTI congress, which aims for the advancement, efficiency, and modernization of the Indonesian transportation system to be more competitive.