DTK members to start work Tuesday

DTK members to start work Tuesday

JAKARTA: Fifteen members of the City Transportation Council
(DTK) will be installed on Jan. 11.

The council will act as the people's representatives in
providing advice to the city's transportation-related policies.

The members come from various backgrounds ranging from bus
owners, transportation businesspeople, public transportation
users, non-governmental organization activists and traffic
policemen.

D.A. Rini, one of the council members from the City
Transportation Agency, said on Friday that the office of the
council will be located at City Hall.

Tulus Abadi of the Indonesian Consumers Foundation (YLKI)
expressed hope that the council would become a think tank for
Sutiyoso's administration.

YLKI chairwoman Indah Suksmaningsih is a council member.

"YLKI will be the first to walk out of the council if the
administration misuses the council to justify its policies,"
Tulus asserted. --JP.

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C. Jakarta to evict street vendors
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C. Jakarta to evict street vendors

JAKARTA: Central Jakarta Mayor Muhayat said on Friday that his
office would evict hundreds of street vendors occupying the
roadside of Jl. Fachruddin in Tanah Abang, Central Jakarta on
Monday.

"We only allowed 60 vendors to operate there in the wake of
the 1997 economic crisis. Now, hundreds of street vendors are
there causing traffic jams. That's why we plan to evict them this
year," he said.

He said 60 kiosks have been set up at nearby markets, while
unregistered vendors would not receive any compensation.--JP.

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Airport full of illegal billboards

TANGERANG: An official revealed on Thursday that hundreds of
billboards at the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport compound
are illegal.

"We never issued a permit for the billboards or the
advertisement tax from either the airport operator PT Angkasa
Pura II or the billboard owners," Said Hendro Wijayanto, head of
parks department at the Tangerang Spatial and Building Layout
Agency, explained.

There are at least 2,000 neon box billboards at the airport,
and 1,540 of them are illegal, he added.

He said the illegal billboards has caused the administration
Rp 500 million (US$5,617) in losses, threatening to take them
down should the airport management keep on ignoring the warning.

Head of the airport administrative unit Untung Rahayu said the
airport was not responsible.

"We just facilitate the billboards ... the tax and the permit
should be taken care of by the billboard owners themselves," he
said. -- JP