Jakarta needs 100,000 drivers

Jakarta needs 100,000 drivers

Jakarta needs 100,000 well-trained drivers to better serve the
public, the Jakarta-chapter of the Land Transportation Owners'
Organization (Organda) has announced.

The organization's chairman, Aip Sjarifuddin, said over the
weekend that lack of trained drivers is one of the main reasons
for poor service on the public transit vehicles.

"At the moment, a driver who is dismissed by one company due
to a serious violation can easily get another job at other
companies. We are not happy with this but we have no other choice
except to hire them due to lack of well-trained drivers," Aip
said.

Aip suggested that the city administration work hand in hand
with Organda to train drivers in order to improve the service to
the public.

Jakarta has around 170,000 public vehicles, both cargo and
passenger, with a total of 4.5 million passengers a day, 800,000
of which are school children. (09)