Discussion: The Draft Policy Brief of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry; The Importance of Sustainable and Humanist Transportation in Java.

The draft Ministry of Environment policy brief is based on the fact that vehicle growth in Java continues to increase every year. BPS data in 2014, the number of 43,548,789 vehicles, in 2016 increased to 68,558,483 vehicles, or about 50 percent of the total national vehicles that currently reach 117,051,257 vehicles (BPS, 2017).

A growing number of vehicles are anticipated for people who do not participate in the management of transportation that is environmentally friendly, sustainable and humanistic. Cause, the increase in vehicle volume in Java will cause traffic congestion, an increase in accident rates, fuel consumption, and also an impact on the increase in disease sufferers due to poor air quality. Towards sustainable and humanistic transportation, the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK) outlines several policy options that can be supported: 

Regulations: 

1. Overcoming the problem of land transportation that develops in the growth of contention is the growth of private vehicles that continues to increase. Need a larger amount than the number of private vehicles, a moratorium on cheap cars, motorcycles that are not environmentally friendly, the lifetime of private and public vehicles.
2. Transportation facilities and infrastructure policies in Java need to be allocated to large numbers of people / goods not to larger private vehicles.
3. Overcoming the problem of air pollution due to land transportation. The government immediately increased its fuel policy from euro 2 to euro 4 more environmentally friendly.
4. The depleted fossil reserves, the government needs to fully support the New Renewable Energy (EBT) as an alternative energy environmentally friendly fuel.
5. High taxes for luxury vehicles and high parking fees for private vehicles.
6. Policies that give priority to public transportation, pedestrians, and cyclists.

Technical:

1. Improve public facilities, for pedestrians and bicycle users.
2. Revitalize public transportation
3. Reducing construction of flyovers and underpasses in urban areas.
4. Public transportation is designed based on user needs, not on technology choices.
5. Increase emissions testing, KIR test, and car free day.
6. Adds green open space and a penaman tree that absorbs pollutants.
7. Encourage the development of environmentally friendly vehicle technology.
8. Encourage universities to be more active in conducting studies / research on the use of renewable energy (EBT).