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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>This is interesting. Walhi Jakarta
comes out against car free days because they ‘did not help much.’
This sounds like something from the Onion. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>“Environmental activists support
return to coal fired power plants, say wind turbines are just weak palliative”</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Environmentalists from Walhi Jakarta came
out in support of coal fired power plants today, arguing that with the sort of
wind turbines, hydro, ‘clean coal’, solar panels, and other
palliatives cropping up, the public is just not that fired up about
environmental concerns any more. “We still have air pollution”,
said Rina Siryani, “but without all that black soot falling on our heads
everyday, donations to Walhi Jakarta are way down. And those car free
days, with people riding around on bicycles, its making people think we don’t
have any problems any more. We propose forcing people to drive cars on Sundays,
that will remind people of the hell they live through every other day.”</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:windowtext;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
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color:windowtext'> sustran-discuss-bounces+whook=itdp.org@list.jca.apc.org
[mailto:sustran-discuss-bounces+whook=itdp.org@list.jca.apc.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Todd Edelman, Green Idea
Factory<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, February 24, 2009
10:27 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Global 'South' Sustainable
Transport<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [sustran] Jakarta:
Activists say Carfree Days are "A Waste"</span></font></p>
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<h1><b><font size=6 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
24.0pt'>Activists: Car-Free Days Are ‘A Waste’</span></font></b></h1>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a
href="http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/news/city/article/10931.html">http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/news/city/article/10931.html</a></span></font></p>
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<p class=paraou3d4d><span class=charou68><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Environmental activists
on Monday urged the Jakarta Administration to temporarily halt its car-free
days on selected city roads, saying a re-evaluation was needed because the
event had failed to reduce air pollution and loose regulations have resulted in
many violations, including those by senior officials.</span></font></span></p>
<p class=paraou1299><span class=charou68><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>“Legally, the
car-free days cannot be stopped, but the city administration should halt them
temporarily and conduct a review of what went wrong. Honestly, it’s been
such a waste,” Selamet Daroyni, the executive director of the Jakarta
branch of Indonesian Forum for the Environment, or Walhi, told a press
conference.</span></font></span></p>
<p class=paraou1299><span class=charou68><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Selamet said car-free
days, generally on Sundays, had failed to achieve the short-term objective of
minimizing air pollution and also had failed to encourage Jakarta residents to
be more environmentally friendly and less dependent on cars.</span></font></span></p>
<p class=paraou1299><span class=charou68><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>“If we perceive
this issue from the three success indicators, I’d say these events did
not help much,” Selamet said. </span></font></span></p>
<p class=paraou1299><span class=charou68><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>He said the indicators
were public participation, air pollution reduction and public obedience,
including by government officials and law enforcers.</span></font></span></p>
<p class=paraou1299><span class=charou68><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Ahmad Safrudin, of the
Committee for Phasing Out Leaded Gasoline, said car-free days merely relocated
traffic flow from one place to another without reducing air pollutants.</span></font></span></p>
<p class=paraou1299><span class=charou68><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>He said that a report by
the Jakarta Environmental Management Board, or BPLHD, that air pollution has
decreased significantly was unreliable.</span></font></span></p>
<p class=paraou1299><span class=charou68><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>“Jakarta has five
air quality monitoring systems, but only one of them is working, so I doubt the
report,” he said.</span></font></span></p>
<p class=paraou1299><span class=charou68><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Ahmad said the
inefficiency of car-free days had been proven by many violations, with some of
the violators being government officials and policemen.</span></font></span></p>
<p class=paraou1299><span class=charou68><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Responding to criticism,
Rina Suryani, the BPLHD head of natural resources monitoring, said they had
scientific measurements to prove that car-free days had in fact contributed
significantly to air pollution reduction. </span></font></span></p>
<p class=paraou1299><span class=charou68><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>“In some parts of
Jakarta, the air quality has gotten better because of this program,” she
said.</span></font></span></p>
<p class=paraou1299><span class=charou68><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Rina said the board could
not enforce sanctions against violators because the 2005 bylaw enabling
car-free days had not stipulated any.</span></font></span></p>
<p class=paraou1299><span class=charou68><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Jakarta’s car-free
days began in September 2007 and are held on the last Sunday of each month. </span></font></span></p>
<p class=paraou1299><span class=charou68><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>This year BPLHD has
scheduled 22 road closure events.</span></font></span></p>
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