Urban Transport in the OIC Megacities

Absence of Jabodetabek Transport Authority

Despite its complication, there is no one authority that coordinates transportation developments for

Jabodetabek. Currently, the real authority lies with each provincial and local government in the

Jabodetabek area. An establishment of such institution to coordinate plan, implement and monitor

transportation developments in Jabodetabek (the so called Jabodetabek Transport Authority/JTA) is

currently under discussion even though such attempts in the past has failed due to the strong political

tensions among provincial governments as the real authority.

4.1.15. Planning documents currently adopted by Jakarta

During the site visit, several planning documents related to the transportation of Jakarta were

collected. The national, urban and transport strategies adopted for Jakarta can be summarized as

follows.

Presidential Decree 48/2014 about adjustments of Presidential Decree 32/2011 about Master

Plan of Acceleration and Expansion of Indonesia Economic Development

This national planning document determines a strategic direction in the acceleration and expansion

of Indonesia's economic development for the period of 2011 – 2025. This presidential decree

recognises the Jabodetabek area as one of the main Indonesia’s development potentials that controls

60% of national export-import activities. The decree also recognises the challenges that come along

with it, and that the main challenge is severe traffic congestion caused by lack of road capacity to

accommodate the vehicles traffic. In order to address this challenge, the following strategies are

determined:

spreading some business activities to outside Jakarta to reduce the travel quantity between

business centres in Jabodetabek;

developing non-road mass transport system for commute journeys;

developing intermodal mass transport network that accessible for business and government

activities;

developing efficient logistic network from industrial centres in peripheries and improving access

to Tanjung Priok Seaport and Soekarno Hatta Airport;

establishing a transport authority at the national level;

improving Soekarno Hatta Airport and Tanjung Priok Seaport;

improving rail-based mass transit network from peripheries to and inside DKI Jakarta;

developing road-based mass rapid transit (MRT) network;

Improving road network.

DKI Jakarta Local Regulation 1/2012 about Spatial Planning 2030

The DKI Jakarta Spatial Planning 2030 contains macro policies of the Province of Jakarta and the

cities/regencies in the metropolitan area. Several strategies related to transportation system are:

developing an activity hub at mass public transport nodes through the Transit Oriented

Development (TOD) concept;

developing amass public transport systemas the backbone of the transport systemby developing

road-based and rail-based mass transit and providing feeder transport integrated with the mass

transit system, in order to achieve a target of 60% public transport mode share and of 35

km/hour average traffic speed;

increasing road space to mitigate the severe traffic congestion and developing hierarchical road

networks to increase accessibility, followed by sound traffic management and traffic restriction

at certain activity areas;

providing safe and comfortable pedestrian and cycling routes, ensure the integration with public

transport system, and taking disable people needs into account;