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Less than one month after President Joko '€œJokowi'€ Widodo increased subsidized-fuel prices, a number of taxi operators in Jakarta have started to adjust fares by around 25 percent.

Express Group, which operates Express, Eagle and Tiara Express taxis, was among those that have adjusted the flagfall to Rp 7,500 (60 US cents) from Rp 6,000 previously. Pancoran resident Astrid Isnawati, 30, said that she was having to pay extra for taxis from home to her office in Permata Hijau, South Jakarta.

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Taxi fares are determined by each taxi company independently. If you can'€™t accept the new prices, stop using taxis. It'€™s the same like an increase in pizza prices has nothing to do with the government or Finance Ministry.

Rio Rivai

And she is thinking of driving to work, adding yet another car to an already congested road network. Such thinking is a direct result of a lack of a decent public-transportation system.

Jakarta is probably the only mega city with a population of over 10 million without a metro rail network. London'€™s underground metro system opened in 1863.

In 2014, with a population of over 10 million, Jakarta is still planning its first ever metro rail network. And the town planning goes on and on and on.

Abu Abu