Harbor services

Harbor services

As a student returning from my studies abroad I didn't pay
much attention to the news concerning the rise in tariffs for
harbor services -- until I had to get my personal belongings out
of the Tanjung Priok port.

Apart from the fact that most of the money will be needed to
upkeep the infrastructure needed to get to the different offices
and to offset any increase in the price of paper, I would like to
propose a couple of areas where the money could also be spent.

In the first place, some of it could be used to get rid of all
the people hanging around the hangars who expect money for just
looking at you.

In the second place, it could used to finance a reeducation
program aimed at the lower echelons of the work force to make
sure that they understand that they can't just make up laws as
they go along in order to break them for something in return.

Finally, I hope that in order to make the harbors more
efficient and customer friendly the authorities will not engage
the services of expensive foreign consultants.

We have enough government services which are very efficient
and have a minimum paperwork requirement. I took me only 10
minutes to get my KTP (residential card), 15 minutes to extend my
passport, and about half an hour to pay the road tax for our car.
All of these with a minimum requirement on official documents

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