Letter #6

Letter #6

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am a year eight student of Ipeka Christian Bilingual School.
Last week, my family and I went to a bazaar for charity at Hotel
Gran Melia, Kuningan. We departed from our house at 10 a.m.
Unbelievably, we arrived at Hotel Gran Melia at 12:30 p.m. The
street was very crowded [with] people and transportation,
especially cars. I am sure the same thing or maybe worse is
experienced by most of Jakarta's people.

If there are too many traffic jams in the city, people cannot
use their time efficiently. People will waste their time just on
traffic jams. People will also waste energy and oil consumption.
The problem becomes worse because now we have a fuel shortage.
Cars and motorcycles also pollute the air. Air pollution causes
many diseases and makes the death rate high.

We could stop these problems together. First, I would like to
tell the government to make better public transportation with
better facilities, especially the security. Then, I suggest that
the government should give the right penalty for undisciplined
drivers and pedestrians who don't obey the rules based on the
law.

Lastly, I think the government should make a higher security
level on the streets to make people feel comfortable and secure
while they're using their transportation.

If the government did all of my ideas, I am sure less people
would buy private transportation and people that already have
private transportation will sell theirs and use public
transportation. This will prevent too much transportation in
Jakarta and any other place in Indonesia.

People could also save their time and oil consumption. When
people have spare time, they can spend it with their family,
relatives and neighbors.

With the lower cost on oil consumption, the transportation
cost will become cheaper. If the transportation cost is cheap,
then the goods that are sold will become cheaper too. I am sure
this will also increase our economic growth.

The other benefit that we could receive is that less
transportation will also make less air pollution, which will also
make us healthier, and the death rate will be lower. Maybe the
main problem of doing my idea is the cost of repairing the public
transportation. I think this problem can be covered by making
higher taxes for private transportation, especially for luxury
cars.

I hope my ideas will be considered for making Indonesia
(especially Jakarta) a better place to live. Thank you for your
attention.

Sincerely,
Anastasha Herman