Travel document

Travel document

From Prospek

The regulation of the Jakarta Administration requires visitors to Jakarta, even only for a short period, to take travel documents with them. This indicates that the bureaucracy is still maintaining a feudal attitude and retaining 400-year Dutch colonial law. During the colonial period the colonial government obliged one to bring a travel document when going from one region to another, with the aim of supervising the colonized subjects.

Also the fact that the Jakarta Administration doubts the authenticity of the identity cards and drivers' licenses issued by other regions gives the impression that this country is not a unitary republic, but a federal state.

Requiring travel documents for people going from one region to another within the country is obviously not in line with the principles of unity and integrity of the nation. I hope that local governments, particularly the Jakarta Administration, make a more flexible regulation for traveling purposes.

MUDJIB BIN ABDULLAH

Medan, North Sumatra