Governor speaks on permits for public transit vehicles<\/p>\n
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Governor speaks on permits for public transit vehicles<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): The city administration announced that they will
\nonly issue operating licenses to privately-run public
\ntransportation companies which are either limited liability
\ncompanies (Ltd.) or cooperatives.<\/p>\n
\"Proprietary transportation companies will not be tolerated,\"
\nGovernor Surjadi Soedirdja yesterday warned public transportation
\noperators to heed the 1991 gubernatorial decree on the rules of
\noperating wide-bodied, medium-sized and small-bodied buses in
\nJakarta.<\/p>\n
Governor Surjadi made the remarks yesterday at City Hall after
\nwitnessing the signing of cooperation agreements between The City
\nLand Transportation Organization (Organda) and the Trisakti
\nTransportation Management School, the Administrator of the
\nTanjung Priok Port, the Association of Indonesian Importers
\n(GINSI), the Association of Indonesian Exporters (GPEI) and the
\nAssociation of Indonesian Containers Transportation Agencies
\n(GAPEKSI).<\/p>\n
To illustrate his argument, Surjadi mentioned owners of the
\nPresident Taxi who only use the name \"President Taxi Ltd.\" to
\nlegalize their operation but do not really run a limited
\nliability company.<\/p>\n
Instead of submitting the company's problems to the management
\nand obeying the company's rules, they took the handling of the
\nproblems in their own hands and were at odds with each other. As
\na result, the company became torn with quarrels, Surjadi said.<\/p>\n
Asked by the governor to add his own explanations, Tb. Rais,
\nthe deputy governor for economic development, said that many take
\nadvantage of their \"limited company\" or \"cooperative\" status but
\ndo not really operate their companies accordingly.<\/p>\n
This became apparent because it was the owners, not their
\ncompanies, who usually complained when the city administration
\nintroduced changes of routes, Rais said. He added that, again, it
\nwas owners and not the management who dealt directly with
\ndrivers.<\/p>\n
In his speech, Surjadi also said the city administration had
\nbeen encouraging the use of public transportation rather than
\nprivate transportation vehicles, with the aim of eventually
\ndeveloping a mass rapid transport system to serve the majority of
\nthe population.<\/p>\n
\"Public transportation means we should gradually phase-out the
\nuse of private vehicles,\" Surjadi said.<\/p>\n
However, Surjadi acknowledged that this would be a long way
\noff because Indonesians still preferred private cars to public
\ntransportation vehicles -- apparently because of their prestige
\nand perhaps because they were not willing to wait \"fifty more
\nyears\" to have the current public transportation services
\nimproved.<\/p>\n
\"This puts the administration in an awkward position,\" Surjadi
\nsaid. \"While the government wants to ease the city's alarming
\ntraffic density, it also wants to develop the automotive industry
\nby encouraging the use of private vehicles.\"<\/p>\n
Organda<\/p>\n
On the occasion, Aip Sjaifuddin, the head of the City Land
\nTransportation Owners' Organization (Organda), announced that as
\nof next month, Organda will take action against drivers who run
\ntheir buses with doors open, drivers who do not wear uniforms or
\ndo not possess driver identification cards.<\/p>\n
M. Hutabarat, a unit head of Organda in charge of small-
\nbodied vehicles such as Bemo, Bajaj, Mikrolet and Angkutan
\nPinggir Kota (Angkot), asked Organda to suspend the traffic
\ndragnet until June because his unit was not yet ready to supply
\nthe drivers with uniforms and identity cards. Aip concurred.<\/p>\n
In discussing efforts at consolidation among public
\ntransportation vehicles, Aip said that, so far, it was only taxi
\ncompanies who had made an agreement among themselves not to
\nemploy drivers who had been fired by any one of them.<\/p>\n
\"We will also apply this regulation to bus companies,\" Aip
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
Isak Achmad Rohmaidi, the unit head of Organda in charge of
\ntaxis, asked for a raise in taxi fares due to escalating
\noverhead. He drew attention to the fact that the prices of
\nnatural gas have been raised twice since the last rate hike.<\/p>\n
Surjadi replied that the city administration would consider
\nthe increase only if the taxi companies were about to go
\nbankrupt.(06)<\/p>",
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