It looks surprising and still cannot believe it. Hope somebody would get us the bill. we have emailed few friends. Carlos - look at this <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Csudhir%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><link rel="themeData" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Csudhir%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx"><link rel="colorSchemeMapping" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Csudhir%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml"><style>  </style><a href="http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/06/24/people-can-sue-govt-poor-public-services.html">http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/06/24/people-can-sue-govt-poor-public-services.html</a> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Csudhir%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><link rel="themeData" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Csudhir%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx"><link rel="colorSchemeMapping" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Csudhir%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml"><style>  </style> If public service providers fail to perform their duty, and if because of their negligence members of the public are injured or die as a result, they are liable to criminal punishment”. amazing !! cheers Sudhir <div class="gmail_quote">2009/6/30 Carlosfelipe Pardo <<a href="mailto:carlosfpardo@gmail.com">carlosfpardo@gmail.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi, Just a short comment on this issue of the sign that disabled people should wear: this just seems like Hawthorne's book The Scarlett Letter (and we could find more recent and true examples of similar situations...) Is there a way for an Indonesian organization to make this law un-enforceable because it violates human rights? I find it extremely discriminatory and excluding. Why don't they use a hot iron to put a sign on car-drivers' foreheads as well? It sounds just as logical... At least the press gave some space to Tyas and others to give their views... Best regards, Carlos. Sudhir wrote: > *"lawmakers voted unanimously this month to demand disabled people <div class="im">> wear signs announcing their condition so motorists won't run them down > as they cross the street.*" > > <a href="http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/SE%2BAsia/Story/STIStory_396512.html" target="_blank">http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/SE%2BAsia/Story/STIStory_396512.html</a> > > JAKARTA - NEW laws requiring disabled pedestrians to wear traffic > signs have met with frustration and derision in Indonesia, where in > the eyes of the law cars have taken priority over people. > > The laws will do nothing to improve road safety or ease the traffic > that is choking the life out of the capital city of some 12 million > people, and serve only to highlight official incompetence, analysts said. > > Within five years, if nothing changes, experts predict Jakarta will > reach total gridlock, with every main road and backstreet clogged with > barely moving, pollution-spewing cars. > > That's too late for the long-awaited urban rail link known as the Mass > Rapid Transit (MRT), which has only just entered the design stage and > won't be operational until 2016 at the earliest. > > 'Just like a big flood, Jakarta could be paralysed. The city's > mobility will die,' University of Indonesia researcher Nyoman Teguh > Prasidha said. > </div>> Instead of requiring level footpaths and ramps, l/awmakers voted <div><div></div><div class="h5">> unanimously this month to demand disabled people wear signs announcing > their condition so motorists won't run them down as they cross the street. > / > Experts say the new traffic law is sadly typical of a country which > for decades has allowed cars and an obsession with car ownership to > run rampant over basic imperatives of urban planning. > > 'It is strange when handicapped people are asked to carry extra > burdens and obligations,' Institute of Transportation Studies > (Instran) chairman Darmaningtyas said. > > 'The law is a triumph for the automotive industry. It's completely > useless for alleviating the traffic problem.' The number of motor > vehicles including motorcycles in greater Jakarta has almost tripled > in the past eight years to 9.52 million. Meanwhile road space has > grown less than one percent annually since 2004, according to the > Indonesian Transport Society. > > 'Traffic congestion is like cancer,' Institute for Transportation and > Development Policy specialist Harya Setyaka said. 'This cancer has > developed over 30 years as Jakarta begins to develop haphazardly > beyond its carrying capacity.' A 2004 study by the Japan International > Cooperation Agency found that traffic jams cost Jakarta some 8.3 > trillion rupiah (822 million dollars) a year in extra fuel > consumption, lost productivity and health impact. -- AFP > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Sudhir Gota > Transport Specialist > CAI-Asia Center > Unit 3510, 35th Floor, Robinsons-Equitable Tower, > ADB Avenue, Ortigas Center, Pasig City > Metro Manila, Philippines 1605 > Tel: +63-2-395-2843 > Fax: +63-2-395-2846 > <a href="http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia" target="_blank">http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia</a> > Skype : sudhirgota </div></div>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ <div><div></div><div class="h5">> > -------------------------------------------------------- > To search the archives of sustran-discuss visit > <a href="http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=014715651517519735401:ijjtzwbu_ss" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=014715651517519735401:ijjtzwbu_ss</a> > > -------------------------------------------------------- > If you get sustran-discuss via YAHOOGROUPS, please go to <a href="http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/listinfo/sustran-discuss" target="_blank">http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/listinfo/sustran-discuss</a> to join the real sustran-discuss and get full membership rights. > > ================================================================ > SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries (the 'Global South'). -------------------------------------------------------- To search the archives of sustran-discuss visit <a href="http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=014715651517519735401:ijjtzwbu_ss" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=014715651517519735401:ijjtzwbu_ss</a> -------------------------------------------------------- If you get sustran-discuss via YAHOOGROUPS, please go to <a href="http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/listinfo/sustran-discuss" target="_blank">http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/listinfo/sustran-discuss</a> to join the real sustran-discuss and get full membership rights. ================================================================ SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries (the 'Global South'). </div></div></blockquote></div> -- Sudhir Gota Transport Specialist CAI-Asia Center Unit 3510, 35th Floor, Robinsons-Equitable Tower, ADB Avenue, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Metro Manila, Philippines 1605 Tel: +63-2-395-2843 Fax: +63-2-395-2846 <a href="http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia">http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia</a> Skype : sudhirgota