Tangerang parking fee doubles

Tangerang parking fee doubles

TANGERANG: The local administration has increased the parking
rate from Rp 1,000 (12 U.S. cents) to Rp 2,000 since the
beginning of this year in an effort to double its revenues from
parking tax.

Last year, the regency made Rp 1.2 billion in parking tax.

Many motorists have protested the policy, saying the increase
only added to their burdens.

"If we park at five different places in a day, we must spend
Rp 10,000 just for parking. This is more than my lunch
allowance," Asep Suganda of Ciputat district told The Jakarta
Post on Tuesday.

Tangerang Regent Ismet Iskandar has expressed his readiness to
revise the increase if residents complained.

Besides projecting higher revenues from parking tax, the
administration has also set increased revenues from hotels,
restaurants, amusement centers, billboards, street lights,
buildings and income taxes. -- JP