Letter: Putting us on the map

Fri, 11/06/2009 2:45 PM  |  Reader's Forum

This is a response to an article titled "Real action after the summit," (The Jakarta Post, Nov. 2).

The people have done a great democratic job by re-electing President SBY, for a well-earned second term. During his first term he proved not only to be a gifted politician, but more so a wise statesman, leading and managing his Cabinet and administration effectively, giving more than sufficient responsibility to his ministers and other state functionaries to enable them to do their jobs.

It is inspiring to learn that the government has identified the highly economic importance of the country's multimodal transportation bottlenecks and weaknesses (sea ports, shipping, roads and airports) and has placed this issue high on the government's action list, to put Indonesia on the map of the global supply chain and become a major world player.

May I suggest to Hatta Radjasa to put a senior transport policy team together, charged with the task of formulating a long-overdue national strategic multimodal transport policy plan for the short, middle and long terms, with a realistic priority action plan for infrastructure and a review/overhaul of current laws and regulations, that are hampering the economically sustainable growth of the multimodal transport sector in Indonesia as a whole.

Jan R. Scheele
Bogor, West Java

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