[sustran] Flexible Working Hours from Jakarta?

[Sudhir]

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From: Puput <puput at kpbb.org>
Date: 2008/11/28
Subject: [cai-asia] Flexible Working Hours from Jakarta?
To: Clean Air Initiative -- Asia <cai-asia at lists.worldbank.org>


 Dear all,

With regard to solve the problem of traffic jam and to reduce its impact on
the air pollution, Governor of the Greater Jakarta set to implement new
(flexible?) working hours system (see the article bellow:
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2008/11/21/jakarta-set-new-school-and-working-hours.html).
Any experience in other countries/cities toward the effectiveness of the
system? Please your feedback.  Thank you.

Regards,
Puput
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 Jakarta to set new school and working hours

*The Jakarta Post*   |  Fri, 11/21/2008 5:58 PM  |  Jakarta
Jakarta city administration is set to issue a regulation to make school
hours begin half an hour earlier (6.30 a.m.) as of Jan. 1, to ease morning
and noon traffic congestion around the city.

"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 operating hours according to the
location of their offices.

"For private offices, we urge those located in North and Central Jakarta to
begin at 7.30 a.m.; 8 a.m. for offices in West and East Jakarta and 9 a.m.
for those in South Jakarta," Prijanto
said. The starting time for civil servants would remain at 7.30, he said.

According to a recent survey commissioned by the city administration, some
20.7 million people travel through the city every day, with about 3 percent
relying on trains, 40 percent on bicycles or on foot, and 57 percent on
motorized vehicles.

They survey also showed that about 32 percent of all the destinations were
workplaces, 30 percent schools, 12 percent shopping malls and 26 percent
others. (anb)
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