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MAKING URBAN TRANSPORT PLANNING PRO-POOR AND GREEN : EXAMPLES

FROM PALEMBANG, INDONESIA.

By: Mayor Eddy Santana Putra,

city of Palembang.

Palembang in an overview

If you happen to access GOOGLE EARTH and you type the name of our city:
Palembang, you will be brought to an area which is a river as the first thing that catches
your eyes.

Our city is located in a very strategic area in South Sumatra, Indonesia. It has direct
flights from Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta. It takes only 60 minutes from
Singapore, 75 minutes from KL, and 50 minutes from Jakarta.

Palembang is the capital of South Sumatra Province. It’s the fifth biggest city in
Indonesia. We have a very famous river right in the middle of the city called Musi with a
very popular bridge, Ampera, the landmark..

The characteristic of the city.

The city’s area is approximately 400 square kms, divided into 16 sub-districts with 107
villages. According to the current population census, there are about 1.5 million people,
with growth index is 1.8% annually and our economic growth is about 6.5%. The
income per capita is more or less US $ 2,500 annually, and our economic structure
dominated by industry, trading and services sectors. The number of families we have is
around 300.000 families, with the poor ones about 10% of them. Most of them live at
the bank of the river.

The condition of urban transport.

Land Transport

We have bicycles, tricycles, mini buses, conventional city buses, and BRT named
Trans-Musi. Right now, we are trying to replace gradually the conventional city buses
with BRT Trans-Musi which are more pro-poor and greener. Why is it greener? It’s
because most of the conventional city buses are old. They are around 10-15 years of
age, undisciplined drivers, inconvenient, unsafe and also high in carbon emissions.
Meanwhile Trans-Musi buses are very convenient, comfortable, cheap (just 30 cents
per a trip) and safe and disciplined drivers. As we can learn from its vision.

Vision of BRT Trans-Musi:

PRO POOR:
CONVENIENCE & COMFORT, CHEAP (only US $ 30 Cents a trip), SAFE &
DISCIPLINED DRIVERS
GREEN:
Reducing Carbon Emissions, Converting fuel oil to gas for all of Urban Public
Transport, Transforming the users of private vehicles to public transport,
pedestrian-friendly programs, and bicycle and other NMT ways.

The existing corridors for Trans-Musi buses WITH 25 buses for the first start, and 74
bus shelters for each corridor. We have begun its operation since February, 22, 2010

The water transport

There are more than 1,000 boats, big and traditional ones. Still there are many of the
poor family along the river use traditional boats to carry out their daily activities.

Making planning for water urban transport pro-poor and green

As a waterfront city, we make a great effort to have the river functioned to the fullest.
We now try to encourage and campaign the use of traditional boats and provide more
places (jetties) where the users can put the boats safely. We also introduce river buses
to link the water transport with the land transport.

In land transport the policies we have made such as to encourage and campaign the
use of bicycle & tricycle (becak) to carry out daily activities. Encourage and campaign
to walk to work, to bike to work, provide better sidewalks for pedestrians, car free day
on a certain day, and improve Trans-Musi with more corridors and better facilities and
services.

We are currently working on 3 other corridors for BRT-Trans-Musi busses to add the
existing ones. We hope this new 3 corridors will be begun operating next month,
December 2010.

For the next phase, next year we will have 3 more additional corridors. So finally trans-
Musi corridors will cover all areas in Palembang. We hope in the near future, the
conventional city buses will be replaced by BRT Trans-Musi buses which are pro poor
and green.
There is still much room for improvement. Therefore, we are currently working hard with
CDIA, ADB, World Bank and other public and private partnership to improve our public
transport system and provide better facilities for pedestrians, and NMT (Non-motorized
Transport).

Thanks.