Limiting Ownership of Vehicles

              Indonesia will be one of the largest vehicle exporters in the world. As KompasOtomotif writes, research institute Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) based in London, England, entitled "ASEAN automotive: Looking to 2015". Indonesian opportunity to become a giant in Southeast Asia is open when the agreement ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) or free trade between the 10 ASEAN member states applied from the end of 2015. Therefore, day by day making Indonesian street feels more congested and jammed. According to the Directorate of Traffic Police Jaya, every year the number of applicants continues to increase and the vehicle could reach one million more applicants. Nowadays, the government is effort to limit ownerships of vehicles. Consequently, there are advantages and disadvantages of limiting ownerships of vehicles.

For some reasons, there are two advantages of limiting ownerships of vehicles, such as: reducing traffic congestion and reducing air pollution. The first is reducing traffic congestion. It could be happened because the volume of vehicles on the road will tend to rely more slightly than usual. This step also taken due to the rapid growing automotive industry in Indonesia and it is not balanced with the growth of roads in Indonesia, if steps are not taken will result in sustained congestion. The second is reducing air pollution. Air pollutions from vehicles include nitrogen oxides, particulate matter, carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons. All have a damaging impact on human health, animals and plants. Vehicles have a major impact on the environment through their construction, use and eventual disposal. It is estimated that of the CO emissions produced over a car’s lifespan 10% come from its manufacture and 5% from its disposal, with the remaining 85% coming from fuel use and servicing operations. More vehicles that operate will increasingly make the polluted air. Thus, the government should immediately establish regulations of limiting ownership of vehicles in order air pollution can be reduced.

Another reason, there are two disadvantages of limiting ownership of vehicles, such as: reducing the state income tax and difficulty to find unavailability of adequate public transportation. The first is reducing the state income tax. Every the ownership of vehicles must pay taxes every year. It would be a problem because the income tax will be reduced vehicle. When limiting ownership of vehicle do going to result in a loss for the government on the taxation. The second is difficult to find unavailability of adequate public transportation. The policy will harm to the community because of the unavailability of adequate public transport. As we know, the quality of public transport in Indonesia is very bad. That is the reason why the people are lazy to use public transport. If this vehicle ownership restriction policy is applied, this policy should be run with the improvement and increased in the number of public transport. It is to reduce the loss of the ownership of vehicles.

As a result, limiting ownership of vehicles has advantages and disadvantages. It depends on the government to carry the policy out or not. More importantly, the policy conducted by the government just for the sake of Indonesian society, not for one particular person.

By: M.Bintang Arrival

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