Indonesian Automotive Industries
If indeed the national car market reach 1 million units by 2013 as predicted by the Joint Indonesian Automotive Industries (Gaikindo), then Jakarta will experience a standstill (traffic stagnation) next year. This is because Jakarta accounts for 45-50 percent of new car purchases of the total national market share. Then, the average growth of new roads in the capital of only 0.01 percent per year, while purchases of new cars rose by 8 percent per year.
Rudi explains Borgenheimer, President Director of PT Mercedes-Benz Indonesia (MBI), on the sidelines of the Mercedes-Benz Automotive Symposium in IIMs JIExpo Kemayoran, Central Jakarta, today (26 / 7). He added that the number of cars in Jakarta now reached 2.4 million units, while 4.3 million units of motorcycles.
“This condition is threatening total gridlock faster than predicted as early as 2015, into 2012. Hence, Jakarta needs to be addressed,” please Rudi. Local government, he hoped, to provide mass transportation systems that are environmentally friendly. In addition, the necessary restrictions on the use of environmentally friendly cars are not in the city. Changes in the tax system, especially for leniency, given to environmentally friendly cars and immediately replace the 3-in-1 into electronic road pricing (ERP) to suppress the accumulation of vehicles on main roads in Jakarta.
“It should create the idea that public transportation is the main engine of the city. All the action is urgently needed from all stakeholders, car manufacturers, fuel providers (Pertamina), local government and relevant ministries to address this threat,” lid Rudi.
Yoga Adiwinarto, transportation analyst from the Institute for Transportation & Development Policy, added, construction of new roads in one location will only add to people’s desire to buy a personal vehicle. The main goal is to break the bottleneck by limiting the use of private vehicles.
“In London and Stockholm, the government reduced the use of private cars in the city with the application of road tax and parking restrictions. In essence, all it takes is to move people more efficiently, rather than vehicle