No ticketing for emission failure

No ticketing for emission failure

JAKARTA (JP): City officials yesterday said motorists in
Jakarta would not be ticketed for failing emission tests because
a schedule to implement the emission law had yet to be decided.

Head of the city's environmental bureau Aboejoewono
Aboeprajitno was responding yesterday to reports of drivers being
ticketed on the Ciawi toll road in Bogor because their busses
failed emission tests.

A land transport control agency official at the city's
emission check center in Ujung Menteng said there were no
instructions yet to conduct tests in Jakarta.

Yesterday Bogor land transport control agency officials
ticketed inter-city bus drivers if their buses failed spot
emission tests.

Aboejoewono is in charge of a team preparing for the
implementation of the new law on emissions. Preparations include
spot checking of vehicles emissions. The team includes members
of the city's land traffic control agency.

He said earlier the team had suggested to authorities that
ticketing public transport and truck drivers for failing emission
tests begin in September in certain areas.

"We're not doing any thing now, I'm quite surprised to hear
drivers have been ticketed for their vehicles failing emission
tests," he said.

Meanwhile Ciawi and Bogor authorities could not be reached
yesterday.

Aboejoewono said the next spot checks, targeting 5,000
vehicles, would be held from March 10 to 15. The last ones were
held last June and in January. (anr)