Jakarta threatens to pull plug on parking operators

JAKARTA: The city administration is threatening to revoke the permits of six off-street parking operators for ignoring warnings about implementing official tariff rates.

"We will hold inspections today. If we find that parking operators are still violating regulations, we will send them a final warning before revoking their permits," city parking unit head Benjamin Bukit told news portal tempointeraktif.com on Friday.

The parking unit, which issues operation permits to 584 locations across the city, has reprimanded parking operators it says have breached tariff regulations in 77 locations.

According to the parking rates stipulated in a 2004 gubernatorial decree, parking fees inside buildings and multi-story parking lots for cars and minibuses are Rp 2,000 (21 US cents) for the first hour and Rp 1,000 for each following hour.

The city's parking unit has received mounting complaints from the public regarding high parking rates in the last few weeks. - JP