Future Land Transportation

Future Land Transportation
Acceleration in order to develop land transport, refers to 4 (four) foundations statement, that are :
• To build safe and secure land transport system and also able to reach community of Indonesia regions.
• To build and organized of land transportation, railway, ferry transport, and also urban transport which is qualities, competence, and sustainable.
• To support the development of trading and land transportation industry that transparency and accountable.
• To develop the land transport infrastructure which integrated to the other modes.
Priorities Development :
• To maintain and rehabilitate the transport infrastructure, facilities and services that exist throughout Indonesia, to support economic growth;
• To upgrade or complete deficiencies in each system, in line with a defined strategic level of service and other requirements, specific to each region;
• To develop the land transport infrastructure, facilities and services
• Education and training to increase HRD;
Programme Priorities :
Reconditions superstructure road transport especially urban transport depends on minimal standard offering and improvement road safety facility and improvement accessibility of public services through by pioneer buses. Development of ferry transport, rehabilitation, to maintain the ferry transport infrastructure, and provide navigation supporting equipment with ferry transport facilities in isolated regions and boarder area.
The government strategy for accelerating land transport sector development :
• Continuous investment by the central government especially on non-commercial field.
• Requesting local government to participate the development of land transport affairs as much as possible in order to decrease a financial burden of central government.
• Providing a wide opportunity to private sector enabling to participate affairs especially on commercial field.
Government’s efforts to encourage private sector participation in land transport :
• Revised the existing railway law (Law No. 13/1992) more and more as well as abolishing the monopoly in the railway business. • Revised the existing road law (Law No. 14/1992 and GR 44/1993) for equal treatment between public transport and private
car gave opportunity private sector participation for reguler vehicle inspection by licensing to public and car manufacture workshop
• Tariff policy for commercial (business and executive class) has handed over the market mechanism (operator) and
• Policy for pioneer route has been profitable managed by private sector company
• For the future the land transport infrastructure development projects which give good financial economic might be managed by private sector (ex. Development of Ferry Terminal Margagiri-Ketapang) Unfortunately, the provision of Land Trans ort infrastructure since to be difficult to attract the private sectors due to the “slow yielding” economic and financial return.