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Indonesia's 5 Biggest Cities In Line For ERP Launch
Zaky Pawas & Camelia Pasandaran | June 24, 2011

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Ronen
8:25pm Jul 3, 2011

So sad to read this. The impotence of the Indonesian government in improving public transportation infrastructure is amazingly pathetic...

In Medan, there is no modern public transportation AT ALL!!!

A shame!

maspanji
10:25pm Jun 26, 2011

sad to say that nobody in the government and academia come up with a viable mass transit system instead of taxation solution that benefit no one except the contractors ( IBM, Mitsubishi etc. )exploitation continued on.

wawan96
10:24am Jun 25, 2011

another stupid regulation from the government. as said by previous commenter, erp feasible only when there present already better alternative to personal motoring, which is currently is not made available by the government. this is largely the decision makers (or the people profiteering by the project) have never taken the public transportation on daily basis to experience how horrible they are. not only the criminals onboard, there were no concern on safety themselves. even just this morning my parents had to stepped down a 'metro mini' due its excessive, reckless driving.


human2
8:37am Jun 25, 2011

Another idea that sounds good on paper. "They do it in London so lets do it here!" Well think first guys. This is Indonesia. People drive cars that are still under the previous owners names. They seldom update addresses when moving from one place to another. Do we have fines being sent to the wrong guy or address.

These two points along with the fact the cameras will probably get stolen and be used to make another pocong movie to entertain the mindless masses means its anther stupid idea which can't be implemented here.


leonardo_bachtiar
8:33am Jun 25, 2011

Before creating acronym, better to know whether this acronym has been used previously as an established acronym ( used and known worldwide ). Many people have known since around 20 years ago that ERP is an acronym for Enterprise Resource Planning.

Why not using acronym consisting of Bahasa Indonesia such as PJE ( Pembayaran Jalan Elektonik ), or THE ( Tiket Jalan Elektronik ), etc. ?

Anyway, this is just an input.

Best regards,

Leonardo Bachtiar

leonardo_bachtiar@yahoo.com

+62818330833

The government has decided to impose an electronic road pricing system not only for Jakarta but also in four other key cities, as part of efforts to ease traffic congestion there.

“We will start with Medan, Jakarta, Surabaya, Bandung and Makassar,” Transportation Minister Freddy Numberi said at the presidential palace on Friday.

He said one of the regulations necessary for the implementation of the electronic road pricing system — government regulation No. 23 of 2011 on the management of traffic engineering — had been issued last week.

Freddy added that more regulations would follow and regional governments would have to come up with sub-regulations to implement the law.

“We expect it to be implemented soon, in this year,” Freddy said without giving a date.

However, the head of the Jakarta Transportation Office, Udar Pristono, was less optimistic, saying that the system still needed a lot of preparation and could optimistically only begin to be implemented in 2012.

He said that time would be needed to prepare for the implementation of the ERP system as specialized equipment needed to be installed first.

“Cameras are key to the ERP. We still need to wait for the legal aspects and their provision and this still needs time,” he said.

To execute the scheme, electronic toll gates have to be installed on each stretch of road where the ERP would be implemented. They would communicate with devices on the dashboard of passing cars, detecting the identity of motorists’ accounts and then automatically deducting fees from them.

Udar said the ERP system would be applicable in streets where currently the 3-in-1 scheme is imposed and during the same peak periods — 7 to 10 a.m. and 4:30 to 7:30 p.m.

He was referring to the system where vehicles have to have at least three people on board to be able to pass on selected main arteries during peak hours.

Officials have said that motorists would have to pay up to Rp 21,000 ($2.50) to pass through certain streets during rush hours.

Four firms have already expressed an interest in helping set up the system, including Mitsubishi Heavy Industry, which set up a similar system in Singapore and the electronic toll collection system in several Japanese cities; and IBM, which set up the London Congestion Charge and the Stockholm Congestion Tax in the British and Swedish capitals.

Udar aired optimism that the ERP would be able to reduce traffic congestion in the city with people thinking twice before using their private vehicles to go through the affected roads.

“They will certainly think twice before shelling out money to pay for this ERP,” he said.

While awaiting the implementation of the ERP system, the Jakarta administration and the police are planning to soon begin the trial of a traffic restriction scheme based on vehicle registration numbers, with odd and even numbers alternated.

Udar said that although no date had yet been set for the start of the trial, it would be before the country hosts the 2011 Southeast Asian Games in November.

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ERP one part of traffic puzzle > A10