ITDP Indonesia

Busway's New Route: Lebak Bulus - Tomang

Saturday, 21 February 2008: Governor of DKI Jakarta, Fauzi Bowo, inagurated a new route of Transjakarta Busway which serves passengers along 29 km from Lebak Bulus to Tomang and connects with Kalideres-Harmoni route. 25 buses from PT Eka Sari Lorena dan PT Primajasa Perdanarayautama are ready to serve 17 shelters and expected headway (the time interval between one bus and the next) of between 8 and 15 minutes. The total estimated return travel time Lebak Bulus-Indosiar is one hour and 50 minutes during off-peak hours and two and a half hours during rush hours.

Cleaning the Transjakarta Bus Shelters together with Coca-Cola

On its 5^th Birthday, The Transjakarta busway and the city administration in collaboration with the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) and PT Coca-Cola Bottling Indonesia Company held the "Cleaning the Transjakarta Bus Shelters together with Coca-Cola" event on Sunday, 25 January 2009.

To clean 5 shelters (Halte Gelora Bung Karno,Bendungan Hilir, Dukuh Atas, Bunderan HI dan Harmoni) along Corridor 1 (BlokM-Kota), the event involved hundreds of people from Coca Cola Bottling Indonesia company, BLU Transjakarta employees, highschool & college students and vary communities such as Suara TransJakarta, Jakarta Green Monster, Greenmap, Bike to Work, Marine. They cleaned the windows and signages, swept the floor, collected trash, and pulled stickers off the walls. Some celebrities also showed their interest in having cleaner public service facility by joining the event, they are Rico Ceper, Defri-Padhyangan, Olga Lidya, Fadly Padi and Krishna Mukti.

Governor of DKI Jakarta, Fauzi Bowo also attended the opening ceremony and stated that provincial government of DKI Jakarta has a strong commitment to improve the performance of busway so that more and more people will feel the benefits of it. In order to achieve it, Governor mentioned that DKI Jakarta is now collaborating with ITDP Indonesia for technical assistance and Coca Cola Bottling Indonesia with its ”Coca Cola for Jakarta” program. After the opening ceremony, Governor continued observing the cleaning activities and have chit-chat with volunteers at the visited-shelters.

Coca Cola Bottling Indonesia through its ”Coca Cola for Jakarta” program, initially provided the following items in order to improve the performance of Transjakarta Busway:

Dustbins in 40 busway shelters along corridor 1 (BlokM-Kota) and 6 (Ragunan-Dukuh Atas) in order to raise people’s awareness on having clean public service facilities.
Signages (passenger information facility) along Corridor 1 (BlokM-Kota) and 6 (Ragunan-Dukuh Atas) in order to ease passengers to find the direction.

Launching Website ITDP Indonesia

ITDP Indonesia has played important role to achieve its missions. Therefore, providing remarks on what ITDP has done within a year will be a tool to present the organization in the best light. There are many options of communication channel to deliver that information publicly; one of them is a website.

Annual Report 2008

The year 2008 has passed by. On January 15^th, 2009 TransJakarta Busway was celebrating its 5th anniversary, while it has been two years since ITDP Indonesia implement its technical assistance for the project. Through ITDP Indonesia’s management and staffs, restructured since March 1, 2008, here is ITDP Indonesia Annual Report 2008.

During its 2008 project period, ITDP is aware that this technical assistance is not an easy job to do, therefore, ITDP Indonesia needs to cooperate with tough champion partners to deal either with legal, financial, institutional or the operation technical of Busway TransJakarta management.

We would like to thanks for good cooperation from all ITDP Indonesia’s partners, especially BLU TransJakarta, DKI Jakarta local government, NGOs, academics, private sectors and other parties who have the same will and goal, which is the availability of humane, fast, safe, comfortable and environment friendly mass public transportation. We also would like to thanks the member of Project Steering Committee and ITDP’s partners that have helped us during the project preparation and implementation, which are Institut Studi Transportasi (Instran) and Yayasan Pelangi Indonesia.

It is our hope to keep this good cooperation going in 2009 and for the following year.

Milatia K. Moe'min

Download full report (pdf, 521KB)

A Pressing Need

By Ratna Yunita, Communication Specialist ITDP

ASIA VIEWS, October - November 2008

Jakarta, a densely populated city of 8.5 million people, is well-known for its paralyzing traffic jams, choking the streets with cars and motorcycles and the air with severe pollution. TransJakarta, the city's bus rapid transit system, has the potential to change the city's immobilizing congestion to one of mobility.