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Ironically, an estimated 60 percent of Jakarta's civil servants are unable to afford to live in the city they serve. They cannot even vote for the governor for which they work. They are pushed, as with countless others, by market forces to live on the fringes: Bogor, Depok and Bekasi in West Java and Tangerang in Banten. This results in a disastrous urban sprawl that gobbles up otherwise productive agricultural land and energy-draining commutes.
When I reflect on how to make a good city, the contestation between street vendors and pedestrians is puzzling. Instead of fighting, they should be forming a coalition, because pedestrians and street vendors have a common goal.
Neither the draft bylaw on religious harmony nor the one on a religious city, proposed by the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) faction at the city council and Depok Mayor Muhammad Idris, respectively, has been included in the bylaw legislation program (Propemrda) for 2020.
True, electricity is a basic need and should be controlled by the government for the benefit of the majority of people. But controlling should not mean a monopoly by a state company because monopoly is always inimical to good governance and the economic viability of production.
