Jakarta Parking Urged to Go Digital to Boost Local Revenue

KatadataOTO – Parking in DKI Jakarta is considered not yet optimal by the Jakarta DPRD. This is because many locations have not yet adopted a digitalization system.

As a result, government revenue from this sector is considered not yet optimal.

“If we go out, we can park anywhere, but the revenue from this sector is still low,” said Wa Ode Herlina, a member of the Special Committee (Pansus) for Parking of the DKI Jakarta DPRD, as reported by Antara (07/05).

According to her, the local government revenue (PAD) from the parking sector, especially on-street parking, is still very low. This condition is believed to be caused by leakages.

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Therefore, she is pushing for the on-street parking system to be changed to use digital and cashless payments. So that the money collected does not disappear.

"Digitalization and cashless are mandatory and non-negotiable. There should be no more excuses about it being expensive for digitalization," she said.

It was previously reported that the DKI Jakarta Transportation Agency revealed that a number of electronic parking terminals (TPE) were damaged. This situation caused revenue to drop from IDR 18 billion to only IDR 8.9 billion.

"Currently, many TPEs are no longer functioning,” said Adji Kusambarto, Head of the Parking Management Unit of the DKI Jakarta Provincial Transportation Agency.

In fact, in 2016, there were already TPEs on 31 roads with 201 machines. At that time, direct revenue reached IDR 7 billion.

That amount then increased again in the following years, peaking in 2019. At that time, revenue from parking could reach IDR 18 billion. 

However, the Covid-19 pandemic and damage to a number of machines caused a drastic decrease in revenue in 2020. At that time, the parking sector only contributed IDR 13 billion.

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That amount then continued to fall to IDR 10 billion in 2021, and IDR 9 billion in 2022 and 2023. Then in 2024, the amount was corrected again to only IDR 8.9 million.

“This is because the machines are broken and spare parts are difficult to obtain as they have to be imported from abroad," concluded Adji Kusambarto.