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