We care: Transjakarta officers help a wheel chair-bound man debark from a crowded bus at the Matraman busway stop in Central Jakarta. JP/Wendra Ajistyatama. JP/Wendra Ajistyatama

Your comments:

Implement the system and Jakarta will be going backward by two solid generations. What a crying shame! Men who misbehave toward women be it on public transport or anywhere else should be brought to justice immediately.

J. Bolon

Separating female from male passengers is not a solution.

During rush hours one is lucky to get a seat, let alone make one’s way to the designated section of the bus.

Segregating men from women on public buses would likely lead to segregation in movie theaters, restaurants, banks, etc.

Install security video cameras so that it is easier to prosecute the stupid, immoral male passengers and discourage groping, etc.

Paul E. Rantaau

Come on girls if these guys, who are so immature and sex-starved, try anything on you in the bus just kick them in the groin. Scream abuse at them to shame them.

Rini

This is basically an admission that there are a bunch of men out there who are incapable of controlling their basic animal instincts. You have lost your humanity. Shame on you.

Sidney Bonkers

This must be the most ridiculous thing I have heard in a long time. Have these people ever tried to get into a bus or out of one during rush hours?

You are lucky if you manage to get on and off one of those crammed machines, let alone choose a door
or a seat.

What Jakarta needs are more buses and more frequent buses so that people can travel in decency and not squeeze in like sardines and sitting on each other’s lap.

Lisa

This is not a very good idea. The thing they have to do is just rearrange the bus management. Separating women and men in a bus won’t reduce the problem. I mean it’s not effective at all.

The thing the government has to do is limit the number of passengers in the bus and operate more buses to provide the best service and the best transportation for the citizen.

 Anggi Suharja

Have the Transjakarta bosses tried to commute by busway during busy times? Try it guys and you’ll know why the so-called abuse happens in such a crammed bus.

By the way, they did it this morning. I was asked to queue at the front door section at Grogol shelter in West Jakarta that the officer said was for women.

I refused, because not only was the queue already long and the other door was quite empty, but also I can’t stand the strong and very cold air conditioning attacking my head if I sit at the side seats.

There should be no separation based on gender! It won’t work. Female passengers will move to the rear of the cabin anyway when the front is too full and vice versa.

Jane

It is very good news to reduce sexual harassment in public transportation. The government needs
to carry out dynamic analysis of men and women passenger ratios in every corridor so that both men and women can have the same level of service.

Andy

I grew up in the UK in the 60’s and 70’s, in a very normal, not particularly religious family, but we did have a set of morals based on Christianity, where men and women needed to respect each other as equals and that sex should be limited between man and wife and that self-control with regard to our bodily urges was a good thing. I believe we were in the majority.

James

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