August set for transport council establishment<\/p>\n
Damar Harsanto
\nJakarta<\/p>\n
Responding to public criticism on the city's transportation
\npolicies, the Jakarta administration is to establish a
\nTransportation Council in August at the latest.<\/p>\n
The deadline under Bylaw No. 12\/2003 for the establishment of
\nthe council -- which is to accommodate public input regarding the
\ntransportation policies -- was this month.<\/p>\n
Jakarta Transportation Agency head Rustam Effendy Sidabutar
\nsaid a gubernatorial decree on the establishment of the council
\nwould soon be issued.<\/p>\n
\"We cannot simply form a council without good preparation,
\nbecause we want to have an effective council,\" he said at City
\nHall.<\/p>\n
In preparation, said Rustam, the agency had designed a
\nscreening process to select the 15 members of the council, which
\nwas to consist of transportation experts, scholars, non-
\ngovernmental organization (NGO) activists, police, transportation
\nagency officials and owners of public transportation companies.<\/p>\n
\"A representative of the Indonesian Consumers Foundation
\n(YLKI) will represent the public on the council,\" he added.<\/p>\n
Selection will be carried out by a joint committee supported
\nby the Center of Applied Psychological Studies at the University
\nof Indonesia.<\/p>\n
The selection committee -- members of which included city
\ncouncillors, traffic police officers, green NGOs Pelangi and
\nSwisscontact, and transportation experts from Trisakti University
\nand the University of Indonesia -- has finished drafting
\nselection guidelines.<\/p>\n
\"Governor Sutiyoso agreed today to the draft we made of the
\nestablishment of the council,\" Paul Butar Butar of Swisscontact
\nsaid on Friday, following a presentation of the guidelines to
\nSutiyoso.<\/p>\n
\"Our next task is to proceed with the implementation of the
\nguidelines,\" he said.<\/p>\n
Critics have said many transportation policies, which had been
\ndecided solely by the Jakarta administration, such as the three-
\nin-one policy, the busway and the monorail project, failed to
\naccommodate the hopes of residents for convenient intra-city
\ntravel.<\/p>\n
They also reprimanded the administration for not providing
\ntransparent reports to taxpayers on most of the high-cost
\ntransportation projects financed by the city budget.<\/p>",
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