REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, KEBON SIRIH - Government of Jakarta plans to increase on street parking's tariff in Jakarta by 400 percent in 2014. the plan gets mixed responses from members of Jakarta parliament.
"Increase of parking tariff can be rejected because Parking Technical Unit has not yet demonstrate good its performance than collecting money from on street parking. Imagine, with so many vehicles in Jakarta, but the parking tarrif results not reach 25 billion IDR per year," Member of Democratic Party, Santoso said on Saturday.
Meanwhile, government get retribution from off street parking in private buildings or malls reach 350 billion IDR per year. It's ironic as on-street parking's spots are much more than off-street parking's spots.
Earlier, Head of Parking Technical Unit, Vermy Enrico said the increase in parking tariff according to Law No. 5/2012 about Parking to increase revenue. For seven years, parking tariff in Jakarta has not been increased. So far on street parking is not managed by Parking Technical Unit of Jakarta, but unofficially managed by individuals.
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