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Where will the money go?
Des Pegler
Jakarta
 
This is an environmentally friendly policy. At least people will think twice if they want to purchase vehicles.
Hopefully it will stop the increasing number of vehicles on Indonesian roads, and eventually it will decrease the pollution level and prevent the traffic jam becoming worse.
The taxes, however, should be carefully managed so that no Gayus-like tax officials abuse them.
Happy Indriyono
Yogyakarta
 
Imposing progressive taxes on car ownership may help discourage rich Jakarta residents from owning more than one car, but that would not automatically result in reduced traffic congestion. Most cars in Jakarta are owned by the middle class who use private vehicles as an alternative solution for their daily transport to work, due to the poor condition of public transportation.
As long as there is no improvement in the public transport system, the middle- to upper-class people still prefer riding their own cars to work, school or shopping, thereby causing traffic congestion to get worse.
Sinta Ratna Dewayani
Jakarta

I hope through this policy it will decrease traffic jams, massive pollution and of course decrease the amount of overloaded vehicles on the road. But we still need transparency in arranging the tax.
Indra Malasyah
Jakarta