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            Asian Development Bank.                           point to prioritize pedestrians and cyclists
                                                              in every roads in the city. It also mentions
            The chosen cities are those which able to         the regulation to impose offices, malls to
            perform city’s  mobility  and  transporta-        terminals to provide park areas for bicycle.
            tion development during the preceding 18
            months. Besides Jakarta, the previous city        A Laboratory for City Transport
            winners were Guanzhou, China, San Fran-
            sisco, United States of America, Mexico           Djoko Setijowarno, Head of Advocacy of In-
            City, Mexico and many other big cities. Last      donesian Transportation Society (MTI) said
            year, the winner was Pune city, India.            the winning of Jakarta in STA 2021 made
                                                              the city a proper model for urban trans-
            Senior Communication & Partnership Man-           portation  in  Indonesia.  Other  big  cities  in
            ager at ITDP Indonesia, Fani Rachmita said        the country should no longer go abroad to
            in her written release that  the winning of       study the transport system, but to take ref-
            Jakarta was because of the integrat-              erences from Jakarta which had success-
            ed transport service development; Jakar-          fully adopted them and made it as solu-
            ta was quite ambitious in it, and has suc-        tions for its own transport system.
            ceeded in connecting the transportation
    8       systems for Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), micro-       However, Djoko mentioned that Jakarta
            bus service (angkot) and other modes, for         still have some homeworks to finish, such
            its physical development and also its pay-        as the safety and convenience for cyclists.
            ment system.                                      Some terminals need to be revamped, too,
                                                              like Tanjong Priok terminal and Kampung
            The integration, which had successful-            Rambutan terminal.
            ly developed under the JakLingko scheme,
            allows the passengers to use various types        He  also hoped  that  the  policy  regarding
            of public transport modes with fixed rates.       the electronic road pricing (ERP) can be
            The presence of Jakarta’s MRT and LRT also        implemented to replace the odd-even pol-
            adds  up the options for  the residents of        icy, which is quite ineffective to solve the
            Jakarta to use public transportation. The         jam. He mentioned that the transport sys-
            electric buses operates by Transjakarta,          tem should be supported with IT-based
            stations and bus stops revitalization, re-        law enforcement, namely electronic traffic
            vamping area for integrated transit sta-          law enforcement (ETLE), which can help the
            tions also added up the point for Jakarta         role of traffic officers. “It is more transpar-
            to win the award.                                 ant and accountable,” said Djoko who is
                                                              also the Head of Civil Engineering Study at
            According to Fani, Jakarta had aslo made a        Soegijapranata Catholic University, Sema-
            significant change on the pedestrian lanes        rang.
            and were more supportive to eco-friendly
            transport modes like bicycle. The govern-         Djoko hopes if all of the  integration pro-
            ment had built approximately 63 km long           cess: the physical integration, scheduling
            bike lanes, which will be expanded to 500         and payment system runs smoothly, pub-
            km long.                                          lic will own one ticket only to use all of the
                                                              public transport modes. They can buy tick-
            Last June, the Governor of Jakarta Anies          et subscription daily, weekly or monthly as
            Baswedan also issued a Gubernatori-               they please.
            al Regulation No.51/2020 which includes a                                                     yen/nis
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