Transportation infrastructure in the capital city continues to be improved by Jakarta Provincial Government for anticipation of demographic catastrophe in the next ten years due to rocketing population.

Later if demographic catastrophe happened, people would busy saving themselves. Therefore, city’s infrastructures must be arranged, including its transportation

“Later if demographic catastrophe happened, people would busy saving themselves. Therefore, city’s infrastructures must be arranged, including its transportation,” stated Acting Jakarta Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama in the seminar themed ‘Searching Jakarta Transportation Infrastructure Development Model’ which held at Pullman Hotel, Central Jakarta, Thursday (6/26).

According to Basuki, infrastructures improvement is needed to pursue Jakarta’s lag from other countries. One of the infrastructures need to be improved is rail-based transportation which is still lacking currently.

“Actually we already have mass transportation, namely the Commuter Line Train which is the same with Mass Rapid Transit (MRT). The only problem is the lack of rails. That’s why MRT is built,” he uttered.

Meanwhile, Directorate General of State Wealth for Ministry of Finance, Hadiyanto, said that the chance owned by Jakarta to build transportation infrastructures is very huge. However, there is gap between the government’s funding and the parties that provide the infrastructures. The gap needs to be filled by private parties as infrastructure providers to get everything done and do not fall behind.

“Besides that, we’re also hoping for the transportation infrastructures development in Jakarta to be a model for other regions,” he told.