Many Private Cars Are Used As Public Transportation, Central Sulawesi Transportation Agency Admits It Is Difficult To Take Action

Archives- a driver helps passengers load goods into an Inter-City Inter-Provincial (AKAP) vehicle- (ANTARA)

PALU - The Transportation Agency (Dishub) of Central Sulawesi (Sulteng) Province has banned private cars in Central Sulawesi from being used as public transportation to pick up and drop passengers out of the area.

Head of Land Transportation Division of the Central Sulawesi Province Transportation Agency, Sumarno, said that the ban was because there were many owners of private cars with black plates who switched functions as public transportation to reap profits.

"If you want to use your private car as public transportation, please take care of licensing and other requirements at the local Dishub office so that it has legality in transporting passengers," he said in Palu City, Antara, Wednesday, April 20.

The Central Sulawesi Transportation Agency, he continued, is currently still only giving an appeal, if he finds a private car owner using his vehicle as public transportation.

The issue of enforcement in the form of control is also carried out. Although, continued Sumarno, it was not carried out continuously.

"Because the car owners operate outside Dishub's working hours in all regions. For example, they transport and carry passengers at dawn. At dawn it's outside Dishub's working hours," he added.

Based on information obtained by the Central Sulawesi Transportation Agency, quite a number of private vehicles are used as public transportation, both for transporting and delivering passengers between regions within one region and between regions within the Province of Central Sulawesi.

"Especially before Idul Fitri, there will be many private vehicles that function as public transportation to serve people who want to go home," he said.