Newcomers

Newcomers
to Jakarta

From Media Indonesia

The following are a few suggestions for the attention of the
governor of Jakarta so that this city with its huge population of
over 12 million can become a safer and a more comfortable place
to live in.

An annual quota system should be adopted to control the number
of newcomers to the city, with the prerequisite being that the
persons concerned should already have a fixed job (or a contract
for a job), or at least be guaranteed by a sponsor who can vouch
for the person and cover his/her living costs for, say, three
months.

In this way those arrivals with uncertain prospects will be
reduced as well as preventing them from becoming beggars,
prostitutes, criminals and so forth, thereby reducing crowding in
the capital city.

The increasing number of vendors should also be controlled.
They should be properly located and, not like in today's
situation, permitted to occupy pedestrian areas, or worse, be
relocated to underneath flyovers.

Among numerous spots in Jakarta, Blok M may be taken as a good
example of the disorderly state of the capital, where even the
parking area is occupied by the vendors.

Though not a Jakartan, I would like to see the capital city of
the Republic of Indonesia transformed into a safe, comfortable,
and clean city just like any exemplary (and influential) capital
city.

R RINA GLORIOSA

Purwakarta, West Java