Comments: Bowing to illegally inflated fees

Bowing to illegally inflated fees
March 10, p. 17

Tulus Abadi of the Indonesian Consumer Protection Foundation (YLKI) said parking operators and building management must follow the regulation. “Even though there is no objection from some consumers, the law needs to be upheld,” he said. “The parking management should remember that parking is a public facility so they should not treat it as source of income.”

Your comments:
Wake-up to reality Tulus Abadi before you say: “The parking management should remember that parking is a public facility so they should not treat it as source of income.” How many of the parking facilities in Jakarta’s Malls and other under-cover parking stations are Government owned and operated and therefore could be described as a “public facility”?
The operators have to consider in their costing the area occupied by the parking station with which comes taxes paid to the Jakarta Government, electricity and maintenance costs, security and other staffing. If the Jakarta Government wishes to regulate price of parking then perhaps they should consider building some facilities of their own at which they may charge as little (or as much) as they want.
Les Williams
Jakarta