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$Title{Indonesia
Transportation and Communications}
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$Affiliation{Embassy of Indonesia, Washington DC}
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$Date{1990}
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Title: Indonesia
Book: Indonesia 1990 an Official Handbook
Author: Department of Information Republic of Indonesia
Affiliation: Embassy of Indonesia, Washington DC
Date: 1990
Transportation and Communications
Development in the transport and communication sector during the Fourth
Five-Year Development (1984/85-1988/89) covers the development of land
transport and its infrastructure, air and sea transport; postal dan giro
services; as well as telecommunication, meteorological and geophysics
services. It was carried out and directed not only to expand and smoothen the
flow of goods and services but also to improve the distribution and marketing
system of commodities all over the country while at the same time stimulate a
well-balanced development among the regions.
ROADS
The development of roads covered the national and provincial road
networks, as well as those in the cities and districts. The development in
this field was directed to the rehabilitation and maintenance of the existing
roads and bridges as well as the construction of new ones.
The total length of the artery and collecting road networks being in good
condition in 1983/84 was 14,515 km; it increased to 27,480 km in 1988/89. The
total length of these road networks that were not in good condition decreased
from 23,758 km in 1983/84 to 17,072 km in 1988/89, while those in bad and
critical condition also declined.
To accelerate the construction of bridges, pre-fabricated concrete
bridges factories had been set up a Beureuneun in Aceh, Baai island in
Bengkulu, Buntu in Central Java and Poso in Central Sulawesi.
In 1988/89 rehabilitation and maintenance work had been accomplished on
29,573 km of roads, 16,857 m of bridges. Work was also done for enforcement of
roads totalling 17,813 km, bridges totalling 9,686 m, and upgrading of 3,424
km of roads. A total length of 11,820 m bridges were built to replace the old
ones while 165 km of new roads, 68 km of motorways and 823 m of new bridges
had been constructed. Meanwhile, a total of 14,150 km of roads and 64,729 m of
bridges in second level regions had undergone reinforcement.
ROAD TRANSPORT
By the end of 1988/1989 fiscal year the total number of road vehicles
consisting of buses, trucks, passenger cars and motorcycles was 9,674,246
units and during the Fourth Five-Year Development the average increase was
10.49% per annum.
Transportation in the cities is managed by private firms, cooperatives
and state-owned corporations. Pioneer road transport aimed at stimulating the
development of public transport particularly in potential as well as remote
areas had also been encouraged.
At present there are two state-owned corporations, namely Perum PPD and
Perum DAMRI, providing public transportation services in the cities. Perum PPD
has 2,716 units of buses in operation and Perum DAMRI operates 1,129 units,
particularly in the provinces' capitals. Perum DAMRI is also operating 60
units of buses at Soekarno Hatta airport (Jakarta) and 10 units at Juanda
airport (Surabaya) to provide shuttle service to and from these airports. For
the development of the pioneer road transportation, until fiscal year 1988/89
170 buses had been set for operation.
The development of the road transport has helped create integrated, safe,
smoother and efficient road transport services which in turn increase the
development activities.
RAILWAYS
Development of railway transport is aimed particularly at continuing the
rehabilitation and upgrading of the infrastructure and the improvement of
railway services to meet the ever increasing demand.
The targets achieved in the development of railway transport during
REPELITA IV covered the rehabilitation and upgrading of railtracks with the
total length of 1,647.7 km, rehabilitation of 4,316 coaches, 241 diesel
locomotives, 211 steel bridges and the construction of a container terminal at
Gedebage in West Java. To encourage the use of domestic products, 128
domestically-made passenger coaches and 1,026 carriages had been assembled.
The use of passengers railway services increases from year to year with
an average of 2.08% annually. In 1983/84 the number of people using railway
transport services was recorded at 47,430,000 and in 1988/89 the number
increased to 52,518,000. The amount of freight using the railway transport
services increases by 16.35% annually. In 1983/84 5,400,000 tons of freight
was shipped by train and it increased to 11,416,000 tons in 1988/89.
RIVER, LAKE AND FERRY TRANSPORTS
The promotion of river, lake and ferry transport facilities are carried
out through the development of the vessels, improvement of terminals and
quays, construction of river and sea buoys and the clearing and dredging of
waterways.
Until the fifth year of the Fourth Five-Year Development Plan 5 ferries,
1 river vessel and 1 lake vessel have been built, while 7 ferry quays, 3 river
quays and 2 river terminals were constructed. A number of 31 ferries, 14 ferry
quays, 6 river quays and 7 lake quays had undergone rehabilitation.
As the result of development the transportation of passengers, goods and
vehicles which in 1983/84 were 18,005 thousand, 4,753 thousand tons and 1,585
thousand units respectively, increased to 41,560 thousand passengers, 10,741
thousand tons of goods and 3,067 thousand units of vehicles in 1988/89.
SEA TRANSPORT
The development of sea transport is with the aim to smoothen the flow of
goods in and out of the country. Rehabilitation, replacement and improvement
have been carried out on the available capacity of means and infrastructure
such as the vessels, harbor facilities, the dredging of waterways, the safety
of shipping, harbor administration, marine communication and coastguard
facilities.
SHIPPING
The development of shipping covers the inter-island, local, traditional,
pioneer, ocean-going and special shipping. All of these shippings are
integratedly directed to fulfill the demand of sea transport. Since the First
Five-Year Development Plan until the Fourth Five-Year Development Plan the
operation of the domestic shipping fleets were regulated in a route system.
However, starting from November 21, 1988 by virtue of the Government
Regulation No. 17/1988 concerning sea transport, the decision concerning
operation routes are fully in the hands of the shipping companies.
INTER-ISLAND SHIPPING
To improve the provision of cargo capacity of the ships, the policy of
scrapping the old ships had been undertaken since 1983/84 until 1986/87.
During that period 205 old ships with a capacity of 251,846 DWT were scrapped.
Following Government Regulation No. 17/1988 or commonly known as November
21 Package, shipping companies had undertaken efforts to increase the cargo
capacity. In 1988/89 274 ships were put in operation and the capacity
increased to 503,490 DWT. There were 9,294,697 tons of goods transported but
the productivity has decreased to 20.8 tons/DWT/year. In 1989 a new ship had
been set into operation, increasing the whole capacity to 17,902 DWT and 31
ports of call in 21 provinces.
LOCAL SHIPPING
During 1983/84-1987/88 productivity of the local shipping decreased,
however, in 1988/89 following the November 21 Package, it increased to 21
tons/BRT/year and 3,265,700 tons of goods were transported which is an
increase by 11.9% of the previous year. Meanwhile, the number of ships and
its capacity declined to 1,018 ships and 151,896 BRT.
TRADITIONAL SHIPPING
Sea transportation to remote areas