DLLAJ vows to speed up roadworthiness tests<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): A senior official pledged on Thursday to speed
\nup services at the city's vehicle roadworthiness test stations in
\nan attempt to reduce the number of drivers who preferred to hire
\nmiddlemen to save time.<\/p>\n
The head of the vehicle testing unit of the City Land
\nTransportation Agency (DLLAJ), Abubakar Ahmad, said trials for
\nthe new process had already been carried out at the Ujung Menteng
\ntest station in East Jakarta.<\/p>\n
"I'm making a big efforts to cut the time. In the near future,
\nthe procedure will only take 90 minutes, meaning that vehicle
\nowners or drivers no longer need to wait for days to receive the
\nresults of their vehicle test," he told reporters and visiting
\ncouncilors at Srengseng Sawah test station in South Jakarta.<\/p>\n
Abubakar hoped the speedy procedure could further prevent
\nvehicle owners from spending more money for the middlemen's
\nservices.<\/p>\n
He revealed that there are groups of middlemen, both those who
\nwork for legal agents and individuals, currently operating in the
\ncity's five roadworthiness test stations.<\/p>\n
Three other stations are located at Pulo Gadung in East
\nJakarta, Kedaung Kaliangke in West Jakarta and Cilincing in North
\nJakarta.<\/p>\n
Many vehicle owners, Abubakar said, preferred to use the
\nservices of the middlemen to get their vehicles processed
\nimmediately.<\/p>\n
Middlemen of one of the legal broker agents, PT Terminal Adi
\nPersada, which belongs to Wahana Bhakti DLLAJR pension
\nfoundation, for example, required their customers to pay Rp
\n19,000 (US$1.80) for their help to speed up the testing
\nprocedures, he said.<\/p>\n
Abubakar, however, did not disclose why the middlemen were
\nable to speed up the process.<\/p>\n
Many believe the middlemen share a portion of their service
\nfee with the test stations' staff to get extra attention.<\/p>\n
One of the visiting councilors, Elishman Iljas, said a driver
\nhad told him that he had to wait the whole day to get the test
\nresult while the driver's friend, who had hired a middleman, only
\ntook several hours to get the same result.<\/p>\n
"The second driver paid a total of Rp 110,000 to the middleman
\nfor the quick service," Iljas quoted the driver as saying.<\/p>\n
According to Abubakar, the new total official fares for the
\nroad worthiness service are Rp 21,000 for small trucks, Rp
\n159,600 for big buses, Rp 199,200 for double-decker buses, Rp
\n100,200 for medium-sized buses, Rp 59,600 for minivans and
\nminibuses, Rp 35,000 for taxis and Rp 29,500 for bajaj (three-
\nwheeled vehicles).<\/p>\n
The councilors made the visit following recent reports on the
\ncollection of illegal levies at one of the test stations which
\nforced car owners to pay Rp 105,000, instead of the official fee
\nof Rp 21,000.<\/p>\n
A few days later, 18 employees of the station were transferred
\nto other posts following a thorough investigation into their
\nalleged roles in collecting the illegal levies.<\/p>\n
In an attempt to meet the public's complaints, Abubakar's
\noffice also abolished levies which had no legal grounds,
\nincluding the Rp 2,500 for car washing, Rp 2,000 or Rp 3,000
\n(depending on the car type) for Organda (the public land
\ntransportation owners association) and Rp 1,000 for the
\ndevelopment of Organda's Jakarta chapter office.<\/p>\n
His office is also to stop the Rp 3,500 charge levied to
\ncompensate privately run PT Amanah for painting the
\nwroadworthiness signs on the sides of vehicle. (ivy)<\/p>",
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