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View all search resultsJakarta claims success in mandatory public transport policy for civil servants
The current public transportation capacity of only 3.25 million passengers per day will not be enough to carry city administration and private-sector employees on Wednesdays.
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Jakarta Governor Pramono Anung rides a Transjakarta bus in Salemba, Central Jakarta, on April 30, 2025. The city administration requires civil servants to use public transportation every Wednesday in accordance with Gubernatorial Instruction (Ingub) No. 6/2025. (Antara/Fakhri Hermansyah)
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he requirement for Jakarta city administration workers to use public transportation on Wednesdays has shown positive results, both in ridership numbers and participation, Governor Pramono Anung said on Wednesday.
“Alhamdulillah [thank God] it’s going smoothly, including today [Wednesday] when many city workers still used public transportation despite the rain,” he said, as quoted by kompas.id.
“Some 62,000 city workers take public transportation on Wednesdays, not to mention their family members adding to the number.”
Pramono said the policy had increased Transjakarta bus rapid transit ridership by 100,000 passengers from 1.3 million to 1.4 million daily.
He added that the participation rate also increased to 98 percent and he expected it to keep increasing.
He said the obligation to take public transportation was still only for civil servants working at the city administration and not yet for the private sector, but the city administration is already thinking about it.
There have been requests from the private sector for the city administration to regulate the use of public transportation collectively on certain days, like the arrangement for city workers.
