Jakarta Located on the northwest coast of
java with total area : 650
square kilometres. Jakarta is the capital city of Republic Indonesia. it
is also the country’s economic, culture, and political centre. Jakarta has
grown rapidly and it is the most populated city in Indonesia and in Southeast
Asia, and is the thirteenth most populated city in the world. Total population is 9.6 million at
nights, 12 million during the day.
Every big city in
the world has its own problem. it depends on how the government manage that
problem to make it better. In Jakarta, we can see traffic jam during work hours
and air pollution covered the city. Based on the Jakarta condition’s, perhaps
Jakarta needs more an open space area for social activity, sport, creativity
and etc. That’s the beginning of the ‘Car Free Day’ idea in Jakarta.
Car Free Day
held by so many cities and countries all over the world, such Bogota, France
and etc. September 22th is World Car Free Day. Jakarta Car Free Day
has started since 2005. The Standard Operational Procedure of Jakarta Car Free
Day regulated by local act No.2/2005. At
the beginning, the event was conducted every month, then became twice a month,
and now there’s Car Free Day every week, on Sunday from 6 am - 11 am.
The Car Free Day coordinators closed the streets of
the city from cars and invited local pedestrian to exercise and having their
activities on the streets that normally full of cars and traffic. You can see
Car Free Day location below :
·
Province level :
Jl. Sudirman - Jl. MH Thamrin;
·
East Jakarta municipality : Jl. Pemuda;
·
North Jakarta municipality : Jl. Danau Sunter Selatan;
·
Central Jakarta municipality : Jl. Letjend Soeprapto;
·
South Jakarta municipality : Jl. Sisingamangaraja;
·
West Jakarta municipality : Kota Tua area.
From all the
location which mentioned above, I recommend Jl. Sudirman - Jl. MH Thamrin than
the others. we can easily find the access to get to this road because its
location in the center of Jakarta. We can get there by using public transportation,
Transjakarta was operated at the Car Free Day event. Along the road from Jl.
Sudirman to Jl. MH Thamrin, there’s the icon of Jakarta such as Gelora Bung
Karno Stadion, Patung Selamat Datang Bunderan HI and Monumen Nasional (Monas).
Car Free Day programme
has aims to reduce air pollution, sport promotion for healthy life, and education
in efficiency of car usage in to public transportation, ride a bicycle or walk.
People usually come to do sport like running, jogging, cycling and etc. Beside that,
people also come to enjoy live music, festival, art show, social event and etc.
Seeing the
success of Car Free Day in Jakarta, Car Free Day programme was adopted by so
many city in Indonesia such Solo, Bandung, Yogyakarta, Medan and Bogor.