City to enforce emission tests on all vehicles<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Owners wanting to renew number plate
\nregistrations in Jakarta will soon have to put their vehicles
\nthrough emission tests.<\/p>\n
The policy comes in a bill the Jakarta Administration has
\nsubmitted to the City Council on vehicles' roadworthiness based
\non emission tests.<\/p>\n
The council's deliberations should be completed within three
\nto six months, the head of the city's environmental bureau,
\nAboejoewono Aboeprajitno, told The Jakarta Post yesterday.<\/p>\n
Aboejoewono said that once the bill becomes a city bylaw,
\nthere would probably be an adjustment period of one or two months
\nbefore the regulation was enforced.<\/p>\n
Thereafter, all vehicles would have to pass emission tests
\nbefore their number plate registration licenses could be
\nextended, he said.<\/p>\n
The new bylaw is in compliance with the 1992 Traffic and Land
\nTransport Law which states that all vehicles must pass
\nroadworthiness tests, Aboejoewono said.<\/p>\n
The administration originally hoped the emission-tests bill
\ncould be enacted in September, when the 1992 Traffic Law was
\nexpected to become fully enforceable after a five-year trial
\nperiod, he said.<\/p>\n
The administration has already conducted emission tests on
\nvehicles at selected spots in the capital over the past year.<\/p>\n
The results were hardly encouraging.<\/p>\n
Only 54.3 percent of 10,880 vehicles picked up in the first
\nthree months of this year passed.<\/p>\n
The trial tests found that vehicles using diesel fuel had the
\nhighest failure rate, at 56 percent. Gasoline-fueled cars had a
\nfailure rate of 39 percent. The tests also found that nearly a
\nthird of taxis which use the supposedly clean petroleum gas
\nfailed the emission tests.<\/p>\n
The trial run confirmed that the older the vehicle, the more
\nlikely it would fail the tests. Fifty-seven percent of vehicles
\nrun on gasoline made before 1980 failed the tests, compared with
\n53 percent of those made between 1980 and 1985.<\/p>\n
The figures were 47 percent for vehicles manufactured between
\n1985 and 1990, and 34 percent for those made after 1990.<\/p>\n
The environmental bureau found a correlation between the size
\nof a vehicle engine and emission test failure: the smaller the
\nengine size, the more likely it was to fail the test: 48 percent
\nof vehicles powered by less than 2000cc engines failed the tests,
\ncompared with 27 percent of vehicles with bigger than 2000cc
\nengines.<\/p>\n
Aboejoewono said he hoped people would take the tests
\nseriously, adding that there currently seemed to be strong public
\napathy toward vehicle exhaust pollution.<\/p>\n
The vehicle emission test program was part of The Blue Sky
\ncampaigns, designed to improve public awareness about the need to
\nreduce poisonous gases emitted by engines.<\/p>\n
The Environmental Impact Management Agency designed the
\ncampaign in 1992 to address increased air pollution caused by the
\ngrowth in industrial and transportation waste. (07)<\/p>",
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