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From Discussion
to Wayfinding
Through wayfinding, product of collaboration by the FDTJ brought a major im-
pact on improving the integration of Jakarta transportation.
ive years ago, it was still difficult to find directions
or wayfinding in most of public areas in Jakarta.
F Even when we did find one, the wayfinding was
“An initiate to create a global-standard,
very simple. It was unfortunate, given the fact that
a global city like Jakarta should have had global integrated wayfinding in Jakarta
standard wayfinding not only to facilitate their own was emerged from this FDTJ, until it
citizens but also tourists who came, both domestic or finally began to be realized through a
foreign tourists. collaboration.”
Wayfinding, pioneered by Paul Arthur in the 1960s, is an Adriansyah Yasin Sulaeman, co-founder
important tool to navigate and help people’s mobilities of Jakarta Transportation Discussion
to move in public places. It will help them finding the Forum (FDTJ) (FDTJ
destinations easier.
In Jakarta, wayfinding serves as to complete the
integrated public transportation system, which is
included in part of the grand design for transport
system arrangement in the city. It is able to facilitate
public transport users on their transits, such as in the
Transit Oriented Development area, which currently
being developed in Jakarta.
Adriansyah Yasin Sulaeman, the co-founder of Jakarta
Transportation Discussion Forum (FDTJ) told JaKita,
“Every time I return from abroad, I always think and
imagine that Jakarta must have modern transportation
system with an integration map like other big cities in
the world.”
He said the journey in realizing the dream of a
comfortable and convenient transportation began
when he formed a discussion group forum, namely
the FDTJ, which is used to accommodate the ideas
and expectations from the residents of Jakarta. One
of the discussions was about this wayfinding system,
which was not optimal at that time. Many officials of
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