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
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