Socio History and Political Economy of Development Transjakarta Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) in DKI Jakarta, Indonesia

 The central government's political economy policy to generate domestic industry became the main reference in formulation of local public transport policies. The local level public transportation policy maker and planner could not just ignore the automotive sector development. However, the government still has to pay a lot of attention to the impact of automotive industry development policy.

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The accessibility gap in vertical public transportation is getting wider. From public transportation to individual mode of transportation. The changes of society pattern in choosing the transportation to be used as a result of structural changes of the political economy that occurred during the New Order era, and continues in the current government era. The New Order government had developed a national car project (Mobnas). Beside the Mobnas project, there's also a political economic phenomenon that continues on production and consumption of motor vehicle growth. The implication of this matter is the elimination of public transportation from the arena of city public transportation modes. The national car program (Mobnas) at that time did not only bring in cars, but also bought a blueprint for the design of imported cars, namely Timor. The sedan car was imported in its entirety (CBU/completely built up) from the Kia Motor factory in South Korea and entered Indonesia without being subject to import duties and other taxes. Failure of Mobnas project wasn't caused by KIA vehicle (Sephia) poor quality, but rather because of the nuances of corruption, collusion and nepotism (KKN) in the project. The project was run by TPN incorporation, which then received tax exemption facilities from the government, such as import duty taxes.

The BRT development program is relatively fast and easy to implement in the city of Jakarta. In the process of implementing, several public transportation passengers and private car users' existence are being ignored. They exist, but are considered unseen. Sutiyoso’s political will to reform public transportation by BRT was sturdy. Thus, BRT could operate in less time than planned. The ease with which BRT operates on the main streets of Jakarta is because the BRT takes the existing road. It is unnecessary to build a road for BRT in particular. This is a form of Sutiyoso's policy of wanting to change the bad face of Jakarta's public transportation with BRT which is his dream. What the government has built is just a bus stop. Hence, the Jakarta government has not built a real BRT system yet, except for the corridors.

 


 

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