Indonesia Sea Toll Transportation Program

Loading and Unloading Equipment at Tanjung Priok Harbour in The Morning

  Marine Highway (Sea Toll) program allocations by President Joko Widodo is not a mere discourse program, it was revealed in coordination meetings and Maritime Ministry for Resources to discuss the program and the development of Toll Sea based on Presidential Decree No. 106/2015 on the Implementation of Public Service Obligations For Freight Sea. The coordination meeting chaired by the Coordinating Minister for Maritime and Resources, which was attended by Finance Minister Bambang Brodjonegoro, Trade Minister Thomas Lembong, President Director of PT. Pelni as well as representatives of other relevant ministries and institutions in the Office of the Ministry for Maritime and Resources, on Monday (30/05).

The essence of the application program Toll Sea is to keep the price disparity logistics in the islands do not differ much from in the big cities, based on the study of the Ministry for Maritime and Resources as presented by Deputy III Ministry for Maritime and Resources, Ridwan Abubakar that a pretty good example of the decline in the prices of basic necessities in Namlea Buru, some commodities are good enough, the target of regulation, decreased to 30% to 40%. (Press Conference Release by Ministry of Maritime and Resources).

Finance Minister Bambang Brodjonegoro expressed Budgetting support for Sea Toll Program is already maximal especially in the Ministry of Transportation, in particular Directorate General of Sea and Land. Sea Transportation budget both for Goods and Passengers to 1.16 trillion Rupiah. Graphic below show the budget that allocated by Indonesian Government to Support the Program : 



The implementation of the budget look a little bit weird when the essence application of Toll Sea is to keep the price disparity logistic on the island at east of Indonesia do not differ much from big cities. Chart below shown that loading and unloading goods are high on the east side of Indonesian Island (red color shown high activity) :

 






Comparation of using Sea tol transportation compare to private transportation at Namela, Buru District at Maluku Island release by The Ministry of Maritime Coordinator Department  show significant decrease of price that will make price of goods between big city and small city especially in east of Indonesia not so much different. 

 


With data comparation above sea tol transporation budget for Passengers  although still needed still unnecessary to spend too much on it,  the main spend should be to sea transportation for goods. 

As quote said : “What tasks are more important? It’s hard to know when you’re caught up in the flow of things, just doing things left and right, quickly switching between tasks, and so on. Everything seems important. But when we step back and think about what matters most, what will make the most difference in the world and in our lives, we can see what we need to focus on, to make time for. We can’t step back unless we’re aware that we’re getting caught up in less important tasks.” ~ Leo Babauta, Indonesia government just never learn on to get "First thing first"

(Photo, Text, Graphic : Donal Husni)