The Jakarta Post | Fri, 11/21/2008 5:58 PM | Jakarta
The Jakarta city administration will issue a regulation to shift school hours earlier by half an hour to 6.30 a.m. starting Jan. 1 to ease morning and noon traffic congestion.
"We will propose this new arrangement to Governor Fauzi Bowo. If he approves, it will take effect in Jan. 1," Vice Governor Prijanto said after a meeting with related city agencies on Friday.
The administration will also issue a non-mandatory instruction for private companies in Jakarta to rearrange their operation hours according to the location of their offices.
"For the private offices, we urge those located at North and Central Jakarta to start their operation hours at 7.30 a.m., 8 a.m. for offices located in West and East Jakarta and 9 a.m. for those located in South Jakarta," Prijanto said.
The start of working hours for civil servants, he said, would remain at 7.30.
According to a recent survey commissioned by the city administration, there are 20.7 million people making a journey in the city in one day where about 3 percent of them rely on trains, 57 percent on motorized vehicles and 40 percent by bicycles or foot.
They survey also shows that about 32 percent of all the destinations are working places, 30 percent schools, 12 percent shopping malls and 26 percent for other purposes. (anb)
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